CUSP
Cusp
A group endurance piece on select days during the exhibition; for one hour at a time, individuals don pajamas too big for them and a vinyl mask of President Obama and stand on a mound of dirt silently and as still as possible for 1 hour holding a cup of ink.
From the artist:
1. Once a person dons the costume, knowing whether what race, ethnicity or even sex of the person is made much more difficult.
The 'costumed identity’ of the character becomes for an hour the 'effective identity' of the player.
2. I am interested in figures of greatness or the powerful in settings or situations of vulnerability or lack.
These performances are in conjunction with William Pope. L’s exhibition at Samsøn, entitled Color Isn’t Matter, which opens February 5 and runs until March 20, 2010. Performances of Cusp will also take place at Samsøn during gallery hours on February 5, 20, March 5 & 20. Samsøn is located at 450 Harrison Avenue / 29 Thayer Street, Boston.
about Color Isn’t Matter
The only way to get at something is to circle it like an appointment on a calendar or an opponent in a wrestling ring or a very small bird, above an endless ocean, searching for a place to light. People say color is light. If so, then matter is an understudy. Our eyes, a fanclub. Our brain, our brain, our brain —an IMAX where phenomena gets its script. People say: "Color doesn't matter." as in "Color doesn't matter, I'm not a bigot." Is this idea cousin to the notion: "Color isn't matter"? And if so, how so? Perhaps in terms of possible worlds: People who say color doesn't matter have an implicit belief that color is in the theater of the beholder. Lift the curtain, sift the ocean, what do you perceive? A plethora, a process that surrounds us, is inside us, behind, before and beyond us. Color isn't matter, it's the transmission of bending, rending and longing; the prismatic messiness of the original lens. The works in this show are located at various points on a wobbling spiral and circumscribe my interest in how we use color concepts to create a sense of the world. – Pope.L
Sat Feb 13, 2010
Mobius will be presenting the durational group performance of Cusp, created by William Pope. L on Saturday, February 13 from 12-6, and Friday, March 5 from 5-9pm.
@ Mobius
725 Harrison Avenue, Suite One
Boston MA 02118
about William Pope. L
Pope. L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He prefers the word ‘contraries’ rather than ‘contradictions’ because the former suggests difference and fluidity whereas the latter suggests opposition and rigidity. He has created multi-disciplinary work since the 1970’s, and exhibited internationally, including New York, London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Montreal, Berlin, Zurich & Tokyo. Select recent projects have been sited at Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Sammlung Falckenberg, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, the Carpenter Center for Visual Art at Harvard University and most recently at Hauser and Wirth, NYC where he staged a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Yard. He is a featured artist in “Intersections” edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro and “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness” by Darby English. An upcoming project involves time-lapse photography of butter sculptures of architectural structures. Pope. L is represented by Mitchell, Innes & Nash.
Upcoming at Mobius
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