50: News Bites and Gritty Groundwork with Pope.L

Potty training and learning to crawl - two significant events when raising a child... and in art history? This week we discuss the late William Pope, also known as Pope.L. Painstakingly dragging himself along the streets of 1970s New York, and slowly (literally) chewing over the news as presented by the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a precariously situated toilet, Pope.L's work turned a critical eye on abject social classes, economic vulnerability, and human endurance in modern society. In our 50th episode, we discuss social geometry, pilgrimages and how to evade spending time with your child. See images here!

Works discussed:

Pope.L, Times Square Crawl , 1978

Pope.L, Eating the Wall Street Journal, various editions/years

Music from Uppbeat.