Nancy Popp
Nancy Popp is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates performances, videos, drawings, and photographs that explore relations between body as site, the context of site that envelops the body, and the constant fluctuations that connect the two. Drawing upon durational, corporeal performance and political intervention, she frequently engages architectural and public space, wrestling with political and social boundaries of geography and identity through risky, playful and often confrontative interventions. Popp’s interest lies in creating ruptures between sites of body and place that call forth the physical psychological and social limits of both. Her works critique interior and exterior architectural spaces as nested systems of power and order, puncturing and perforating their rigid boundaries to reveal and inhabit new spaces. Through these actions and installations she upends gendered spatial codes and power hierarchies via the insertion of a body and its unique experience, assertion of presence, interactivity and playful response to site.
Popp’s projects have been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial (Parallel Projects), the Manifesta 9 Biennial, the 2014 Dallas Biennial, the Getty Center, the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Rowan University, SUNY University in New York, as well as galleries in Los Angeles, Düsseldorf, Belgrade, and Tijuana.
Courtesy of Klowden Mann
Nancy Popp is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates performances, videos, drawings, and photographs that explore relations between body as site, the context of site that envelops the body, and the constant fluctuations that connect the two. Drawing upon durational, corporeal performance and political intervention, she frequently engages architectural and public space, wrestling with political and social boundaries of geography and identity through risky, playful and often confrontative interventions. Popp’s interest lies in creating ruptures between sites of body and place that call forth the physical psychological and social limits of both. Her works critique interior and exterior architectural spaces as nested systems of power and order, puncturing and perforating their rigid boundaries to reveal and inhabit new spaces. Through these actions and installations she upends gendered spatial codes and power hierarchies via the insertion of a body and its unique experience, assertion of presence, interactivity and playful response to site.
Popp’s projects have been exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial (Parallel Projects), the Manifesta 9 Biennial, the 2014 Dallas Biennial, the Getty Center, the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Rowan University, SUNY University in New York, as well as galleries in Los Angeles, Düsseldorf, Belgrade, and Tijuana.
Courtesy of Klowden Mann