Pope.L: Notes on the roll of the artist when the world has always been on fire??

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Pope.L: Notes on the roll of the artist when the world has always been on fire??
Monday, September 21, 2020
Free and open to the public online; livestreamed and recorded on Zoom.
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Series, and Berkeley Center for New Media.
Join us for a webinar with Chicago-based artist Pope.L, whom the New York Times called “inarguably the greatest performance artist of our time. . . . Over the course of the last four decades, no artist has so consistently broken down the accepted boundaries of the genre in order to bring it closer to the public, with lacerating, perspicacious, and gloriously anti-authoritarian projects that play with our received notions of race and class and almost always cut more than one way.” UC Berkeley Assistant Professor in Painting Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle will facilitate the conversation.
Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. His work has been featured in exhibitions around the world, including documenta 14 (2017) and the Whitney Biennial, where he was awarded the Bucksbaum Prize (2017).
Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and performer whose practice encompasses collaborations, participatory projects, and intimate works linked to historical events and contexts.
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Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by African American Student Development in the Division of Equity & Inclusion; Arts and Innovation Advocates at Berkeley Law; the Arts Research Center; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Center for New Media; Cal Performances; the College of Environmental Design; the Department of Art Practice and the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series; the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; the Graduate School of Journalism; and the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. In-kind support provided by Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
The 2020 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to the generous financial support of Nancy Olson and Buzz Wiesenfeld.