#william pope.l

[dislocatedwishbone]

Hole Theory

William Pope.L // @selkielore // Anne Carson // Jenny Holzer // Thomasin Frances ( @saintbronte ) // Jenny Holzer & Louise Bourgeois // Anne Carson // Marco Poloni // Midtown // Yohji Yamamoto

[mentaltimetraveller]

POPE.L WHA 2020/21 Acrylic, charcoal, oil and epoxy on panel 95 by 144 by 2 in. 241.3 by 365.8 by 5.1 cm.

[worldssmallesttrampoline]

Pope.L, How Much is that N***** in the Window a.k.a. Tompkins Square Crawl, 1991.

In 1991 Pope.L participated in a residency at Franklin Furnace, an alternative arts space in New York City. During the residency, he staged Tompkins Square Crawl in the guise of his alter ego, Mr. Poots. Wearing a business suit and holding a potted flower, Pope.L crawled military-style along the perimeter of Tompkins Square Park in the East Village until his boots began to crumble.

Since the 1980s, the park had been a site of ongoing riots involving the homeless population who took shelter there, squatters, activists, and police. At the time of Pope.L’s Crawl, Tompkins Square was barricaded for renovations. By assuming a prostrate posture, forcing onlookers to direct their gazes downward, Pope.L aimed to make visible historically disenfranchised bodies and displaced communities.

[desrac]

[queenapplebuuum]

30 Americans Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation 🤎

[unusualmodesofresistance]

White people don’t seem to think about being white or “raced.” They don’t have to think about it. That’s just my take, from what I’ve observed. When you get into a discussion with someone white about race, either one or two things happen: It either peters out and there’s nothing to say; or there’s everything to say and you say nothing.

William Pope.L

[wanderingandactingout]

People say, “How can you, as a black person, choose to work in this white form?” I’ve discovered that performance art is as black as the skin on my ass. Black folks have just as much right to it as anyone, hey, maybe more …

William Pope.L

[adesireforhealing]

No, that’s not what I meant … The body is also a thinking organism. And black folk are bodies that think. We think all the time.

William Pope.L