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NEA rescinds grant for performance artist's show - Artworld - National Endowment for the Arts - Brief Article
Art in America, Feb, 2002 by Stephanie Cash, David Ebony
In its recent announcement of grants for fiscal year 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts left off the list two awards that had received preliminary approval. One of these grants, $60,000 to the Berkeley Repertory Theater Company for a production of Tony Kushner's new play, Homebody/Kabul, was eventually reinstated. The second, $42,000 to the Maine College of Art in Portland, for an exhibition of works by performance and installation artist William Pope. L, has been denied. Pope. L, who teaches performance, film and black theater history at Bates College in Maine, produces provocative works that critique racial stereotypes as well as issues relating to America's consumerist society. In New York he is known for marathon performance pieces called "crawls." In one of these, the artist donned a business suit and crawled up the Bowery on his stomach. He is also known for his participation in a number of exhibitions at The Project in Harlem. This spring he will appear in the Whitney Biennial. As part of that show, he plans to perform The Great White Way, in which he will crawl from the foot of the Statue of Liberty onto a ferry and proceed to crawl up Broadway, all the way through Manhattan, to his mother's house in the Bronx.
Robert Martin, who was acting NEA chairman until Dec. 20 [see above], declined to discuss the move to withdraw support for the Pope. L exhibition. However, the show will go on as planned later this year, largely thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The foundation's director, Joel Wachs, told the press that the Warhol grant had been planned before the NEA's decision was known, but he decided to publicize the award in response to what he referred to as the NEA's "attack on freedom of expression."
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