The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings

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  • The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings Book Detail

  • Author : Gregg Bordowitz
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Genre : AIDS (Disease) in art
  • Pages : 356
  • ISBN 13 : 9780262025706
  • File Size : 80,80 MB
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The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings by Gregg Bordowitz PDF Summary

Book Description: "The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. 'So total was the burden of illness - mine and other - that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens', writes Gregg Biodowirtz, a film - and videomaker whose most well-known works, 'Fast trip', 'Long drop' (1993) and 'Habit' (2001), address AIDS globally and personalily. In the 'AIDS crisis is ridiculous' - the title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater Company - Bordowitz follows in the tradition of artist-writer Robert Smithson and Yvonne Rainer by making writing an integral part of an artistic practice. Bordowitz has left his earliest writings for the most part unchanged - to preserve, he says, 'both the youthful exuberance and palpable sense of fear' created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal 'Documents', 'New York was yeasterday'. Finally, in his newest essays he reformulates early themes, and, in 'My postmodernism' (written for 'Artforum's' fortieth anniversary issue) and 'More operative assumptions' (written especially for this book), he reexamines the underlaying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns." - back cover.

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