Nancy Popp

I realized I had posted my presentation on Nancy Popp on WordPress by accident so I'm putting it back onto Blogger.

Nancy Popp

Originally from Los Angeles, Nancy Popp is a performance artist who performs a lot of public pieces, many of which seem rather confusing and often make you sit there wondering what she's doing. Her performance pieces need explanation because much of it comes down to her own interpretation of the piece she's doing. These videos up here kind of give you an idea of what she's about, the last two videos are her performing someone else's piece but the piece itself is very much her kind of style when you see everything else that she's done and is doing.

This is part of her Untitled (street climbing performances) where she would climb random street poles and someone would take a photo of her. Her explanation of these performances were to break out of the normal "pattern of movement" (on the sidewalk) and to observe the flow of the sidewalk and seek out new sightlines. Basically she climbed the pole to see how people walked from her point of view and to also check out the cool view.

In her other works, she often portrays herself naked or almost naked, sometimes in the fetal position sometimes in a well or whatever. Much of it comes down to the human form being in a vulnerable position, and the photos I took off her website actually have their own explanation of the pictures, most of which say "video coming soon", and considering some of the works that she's doing that would be a very interesting thing to see.

These are just a few examples