{"title":"William Pope.L","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Pope.L (1955–2023) was an American artist, performer, and writer whose work engaged race, class, visibility, and the social body through performance, installation, drawing, and text. Known for his endurance crawls — including \u003cem\u003eThe Great White Way\u003c\/em\u003e (2002–ongoing), in which he crawled the length of Broadway in a Superman costume — Pope.L developed a practice in which the body becomes a site of proposition, comedy, and critique simultaneously. \u003cem\u003eThe Black Factory\u003c\/em\u003e (2004–ongoing) extended this logic into a mobile social project: a truck-based operation that collected, transformed, and redistributed objects associated with blackness. His work resists neutralisation by any single interpretive frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"william-popel-some-things-you-can-do-with-blackness-2005","title":"William Pope.L — some things you can do with blackness…, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, 2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eKenny Schachter Rove, London, 2005\u003cbr\u003eExhibition catalogue\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e36 pp.\u003cbr\u003eEnglish\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-0954960506\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of William Pope.L’s exhibition \u003cem\u003esome things you can do with blackness…\u003c\/em\u003e, held at Kenny Schachter Rove, London, 25 February – 24 April 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA catalogue for a project organised around blackness as material, proposition, joke, wound, commodity, and social engine. The cover presents a small black bear-like object on a red ground; inside, the publication moves through documentation, drawings, performance images, props, text, and residues from \u003cem\u003eThe Black Factory\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pages register Pope.L’s method as circulation rather than illustration. Rubber ducks, bottled water, diagrams, handwritten plans, chocolate, cornflakes, inflatable forms, and street actions appear as components in a larger operating system. The object is comic, unstable, and difficult to neutralise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded are references to \u003cem\u003eThe Great White Way\u003c\/em\u003e, Pope.L’s long-running crawl begun in 2002, and \u003cem\u003eThe Black Factory\u003c\/em\u003e, a mobile social project in which objects associated with blackness were collected, transformed, archived, and redistributed. The catalogue holds these actions in printed form without resolving them into a single statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling wear to covers and pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact 2005 London publication from one of Pope.L’s key mid-career projects. Blackness appears here not as theme alone, but as operation: processed, staged, exchanged, consumed, and returned as image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenny Schachter Rove","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290037412178,"sku":"POPEL-BLACKNESS-2005","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Pope.L_William._Some_things_you_can_do_with_blackness.jpg?v=1777205186"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/Pope.L_William._Some_things_you_can_do_with_blackness.jpg?v=1777264290","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/william-pope-l.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}