William Pope.L: eRacism: electronica
April 23 - June 27, 2004


William Pope.L has expanded the boundaries of performance, installation, and object-focused art for over 25 years. Citing social conundrum as the engine which drives his work, Pope.L addresses the rigidity of false categories, consumerism, and culturally embedded notions such as racism and sexism with dark humor and biting critique. This solo exhibition of William Pope.L, eRacism: electronica features new work installed specifically for the Contemporary alongside the first comprehensive look at the artist's extensive work in performance and new media.* An important inclusion to this exhibition is the artist's ongoing WEB-based project distributingmartin, (2000-present) that like the new video works, also references other pieces in the show for a continual visual and conceptual cross-over that the viewer builds as they wonder through the exhibition.

Artist Talk: May 13, 2004
Curated by Shannon Fitzgerald, Curator, the Contemporary.

*The DVD presentation of The Friendliest Black Artist in America was created by the artist for the traveling exhibition William Pope.L: eRacism (2002-04) organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art and curated by Mark H.C. Bessire, Stuart Horodner, Sara Kellner and Diane Barber that is accompanied by a catalog, entitled William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America.