He was also a Ralph Bunche Graduate Fellow. This work is a concrete performative burlesque of contemporary consumptive modes of today's western society. In this piece consumption is unnatural and food is anti-nutrition. Previous versions of the work were completed in 1992, and most recently at Mobius Artists Space in Boston. Bio William Pope.
L is a visual, performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contradiction.
This work is an investigation into Medea as an infanticidal mother, a rewriting necessary to the genocidal and patriarchal project underlying Greek democracy. This denial remains deep in Western thought. A performer standing in front of two large mirrors in an isolated space wearing a skin tight latex body suit will choose from a series of tubes traveling around her body barely visible through the suit, attaches one to her mouthpiece and blows. One of the many disguised compartments in the suit will inflate and transform a body part by enlarging it or varying the shape. Some compartments will inflate to become animal-like, others will either be deflated or combine with different compartments.