A short essay focused on William Pope.L’s early performance work Eracism discussing black flesh, voicing and the ludic resistance of white perception. Comer and Jackson’s book accompanied a multi-institution retrospective of Pope.L’s work across New York.
member: Pope.L, 1978–2001, eds. Stuart Comer and Danielle A. Jackson, MoMA, 2019. ISBN 9781633450868.
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William Pope.L, eRacism (version 8b), 2000. © Pope.L. Courtesy of the artist.