Kenny Schachter Rove, London, 2005
Exhibition catalogue
Softcover
36 pp.
English
ISBN: 978-0954960506
Published on the occasion of William Pope.L’s exhibition some things you can do with blackness…, held at Kenny Schachter Rove, London, 25 February – 24 April 2005.
A 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 The Black Factory.
The 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.
Included are references to The Great White Way, Pope.L’s long-running crawl begun in 2002, and The Black Factory, 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.
Condition: Very good. Light handling wear to covers and pages.
A 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.
Original period item.
