Responding to the Actionist and Performance Art movements of the ‘60s, the Austrian sculptor Franz West created delightfully light-hearted mixed media objects and large scale installations merging ideas of form and function in art and performance. Beginning in the ‘70s West produced a series of small, portable sculptures that he called “Adaptives” meant to be held, carried or worn by viewers to complete the artwork. This dialogue between viewer and art was explored throughout his career.