O Tannenbaum

The actionists became marginalised, outlawed, and denied their roles as artists: they became 'othered' in anthropological terminology, where the concept is used to designate the cultural stranger or alien who is an outcast of a particular social group, or an intruder from outside.

The 'other' is also a quite everyday phenomenon though, being the counterpart of the self, or more specifically, the counterpart of those parts of the self that have been marginalised by others.