MY KINGDOM FOR A TITLE by Pope.L
with a reading by Pope.L followed by an informal conversation between Pope.L and Annie Goodner
Saturday August 27, 7pm‘My Kingdom for a Title’ is a collection of writing by Chicago–based artist Pope.L documenting his use of language as a mode of visual, narrative, and performative story telling.
The act of writing has been integral to how Pope.L works and is arguably the most consistent element in his practice. These works take various forms: scripts, short stories, scribbled notes, large scale installation, and painting—many never before released. Assembled here for the first time, ‘My Kingdom for a Title’ allows the breadth of the artist’s engagement with language to be fully assessed. Within the book, Pope.L’s work is supplemented with extensive endnotes sourced by artist Kandis Williams.
Pope.L is a visual artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice uses binaries, contraries, and preconceived notions embedded within contemporary culture to create artworks in various formats including writing, painting, performance, installation, video, and sculpture. Building upon his long history of enacting arduous, provocative, absurdist performances and interventions in public spaces, Pope.L applies some of the same social, formal, and performative strategies to his interests in language, system, gender, race, and community. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions at institutions, galleries, and biennials worldwide.
Annie Goodner is a writer and arts educator living in Amsterdam, where she confounded and organizes HTSU (How To Show Up?), a cooperative that commissions new writing and performance work exploring translation, forms of speech and collaboration.
