I think what a lot of people don’t understand about protest art is how it lets artists make unnervingly honest statements about lacking agency in the face of your own rage, fear, and frustration www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm reminded of Pope.L who we lost last year. Some kinds of durational art that will makes statements about power, subjection, agency, etc. will always remind me of his work.
Some people instinctively understand this type of art.
A lot.
William Pope.L, the performance and conceptual artist whose provocative works surfaced the complexities of race and class in America, has died aged 68.
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