Though this event was not recorded in full, Pope.L and his studio kindly allowed us to record 15 minutes of the live talk, which has been uploaded to our Vimeo channel. Thank you for your understanding.

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.

Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Series, and Berkeley Center for New Media. 

Pope.L (b. 1955, in Newark, NJ) is a Chicago-based visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. Recent solo exhibitions include 'member: 1978-2001', Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2019), 'Choir', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City(2019), 'Conquest', Public Art Fund, New York City (2019), 'One thing after another’, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018), 'Flint Water', What Pipeline, Detroit, Michigan (2017) and ‘Trinket’ at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (2015). Group exhibitions include 'Brown People Are The Wrens In The Parking Lot', University of Chicago, Illinois (2017), 'Whisper Campaign', Documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017) and 'Claim', Whitney Biennial, New York City for which he was awarded the Bucksbaum Prize (2017).

Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer and performer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. A term that has become a mantra for her practice is the "Historical Present," as she examines the residue of history and how it affects our contemporary world perspective. Her artwork and experimental writing has been exhibited and performed at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Row Houses, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Art at The University of New Hampshire, SF MOMA, The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Páramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico. Hinkle’s work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She is also the recipient of several awards including: The Cultural Center for Innovation’s Investing in Artists Grant, Social Practice in Art (SPart-LA), Jacob K Javits Fellowship for Graduate Study, The Fulbright Fellowship, and The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artists Award and the SF MOMA SECA AWARD 2019. Her writing has appeared in Not That But This, Obsidian Journal, Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. She is the author of Kentifrications: Convergent Truths & Realities (2018) published by Sming Sming Books & Occidental College and SIR (2019) published by Litmus Press. Hinkle is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.

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