Pope.L, born William Pope, developed a confrontational performance practice around race, class, endurance and social visibility. His crawls, begun in the late 1970s, involved moving through public space on hands and knees, while later installations used food, text, odor and absurd systems to destabilize social categories.
Performance; installation; drawing; sculpture
Artist Films
Pope L in Conversation with Christopher Y Lew
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“Flint Water Meets the Mighty Hudson” by Pope.L
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William Pope.L | Video in American Sign Language (ASL)
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Major Works
- 1991Tompkins Square Crawl
- 2001–09The Great White Way, 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street
- 1997ATM Piece
- 2000Eating the Wall Street Journal
- 2004–06Black Factory
- 2017Claim
- 2019Choir
- 2019Conquest
- 2017Flint Water Project
- 1997 onwardSkin Set Drawings
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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