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About Member: Pope.L, 1978–2001
Product Description An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American art Pope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums―including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video―utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that will feature a combination of videos, photographs, sculptural elements, ephemera and live actions, member: Pope.L, 1978–2001 presents a detailed study of 13 early works that helped define Pope.L’s career. Essays by curators, artists, filmmakers and art historians, plus an interview and artistic interventions by the artist, establish key details for each work and articulate how the artist continues to think about the legacy of these ephemeral projects unfolding in time.Among the works included are performances rooted in experimental theater, such as Egg Eating Contest (1990), Aunt Jenny Chronicles (1991) and Eracism (2000), as well as street interventions such as Thunderbird Immolation a.k.a. Meditation Square Piece (1978), ATM Piece (1997) and The Great White Way: 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street (2001–09), among others. Together these works highlight the role that performance has played within a seditious, emphatically interdisciplinary career that has established Pope.L as an influential force in contemporary art.Pope.L (born 1955) is an acclaimed and prolific interdisciplinary artist best known for his provocative performances, such as ATM Piece (1997) and his decades-long Crawl series―most notably Times Square Crawl (1978), Tompkins Square Crawl (1991) and The Great White Way: 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street (2001–09)―in which the artist drags his body across New York City. Pope.L received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University and has exhibited internationally. He lives and works in Chicago. Review [Pope L.'s] aim is to surface the realities of American life―uncomfortable economic, social, and political truths; and the yawning gaps between living while black and white. Published in conjunction with his survey at the Museum of Modern Art, “member: Pope.L, 1978-2001” examines 13 early works, street interventions and experimental theater that largely defined his career. (Victoria L Valentine Culture Type) The current political situation has made the wit and social commentary in all of [Pope L.'s] performances achingly topical―sad for the country, then as now, but a good time to make art. (James Hannaham 4 Columns) About the Author Stuart Comer is Chief Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Danielle A. Jackson is Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Naomi Beckwith is Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where her exhibition and book projects focus on the impact of identity and multi-disciplinary practices for shaping contemporary art. Prior to working at the MCA Chicago, she held positions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Cynthia Carr is a New York-based writer. Using the byline C. Carr, she reported on experimental art for the Village Voice from 1984 to 2003. Her books include Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (1991), the edited collection On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (2008), and Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012). Valerie Cassel Oliver is Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She formerly served as senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston from 2000-2017. Her past exhibitions include Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970(2005) and
