David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

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Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor) Giancarlo Ambrosino

David Wojnarowicz

A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor), Giancarlo Ambrosino, Carlo McCormick , Julie Hair

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English

Semiotext (E)
03 November 2006

Individual artists, art monographs; Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: David Wojnarowicz

Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylv re Lotringer, along with personal accounts from friends and fellow artists collected after Wojnarowicz's death.

In February 1991, the artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) and the philosopher Sylv re Lotringer met in a borrowed East Village apartment to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz's work. Wojnarowicz was then at the peak of his notoriety as the fiercest antagonist of morals crusader Senator Jesse Helms-a notoriety that Wojnarowicz alternately embraced and rejected. Already suffering the last stages of AIDS, David saw his dialogue with Lotringer as a chance to set the record straight on his aspirations, his personal history, and his political views. The two arranged to have this three-hour dialogue video-recorded by a mutual friend, the artist Marion Scemama. Lotringer held on to the tape for a long time. After Wojnarowicz's death the following year, he found the transcript enormously moving, yet somehow incomplete. David was trying, often with heartbreaking eloquence, to define not just his career but its position in time. The subject was huge, and transcended the actual dialogue. Lotringer then spent the next several years gathering additional commentary on Wojnarowicz's life and work from those who knew him best-the friends with whom he collaborated. Lotringer solicited personal testimony from Wojnarowicz's friends and other artists, including Mike Bildo, Steve Brown, Julia Scher, Richard Kern, Carlo McCormick, Ben Neill, Kiki Smith, Nan Goldin, Marguerite van Cook, and others. What emerges from these masterfully-conducted interviews is a surprising insight into something art history knows, but systematically hides- the collaborative nature of the work of any ""great artist."" All these respondents had, at one time, made performances, movies, sculptures, photographs, and other collaborative works with Wojnarowicz. In this sense, Wojnarowicz appears not only as a great originator, but as a great synthesizer.

Contributions by: Carlo McCormick, Julie Hair, Mike Bidlo
Edited by: Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor), Giancarlo Ambrosino
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9781584350354
ISBN 10: 1584350350
Series: David Wojnarowicz
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 03 November 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University. Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University. David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a painter, filmmaker, photographer, writer, AIDS activist, and one of the most prominent figures in the New York art world of the 1980s. David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a painter, filmmaker, photographer, writer, AIDS activist, and one of the most prominent figures in the New York art world of the 1980s. Jennifer Doyle is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side

In this book of mesmerizing interviews with the late artist and his friends and collaborators, breathless recollections of famous graffiti, the night the dancing almost caved in the floor of the attic at PS1, and who worked the door at the Mudd Club gradually paint the very finest brushstrokes of a neighborhood's impressionistic history. -- <b>Erick Lyle</b> * <i>San Francisco Bay Chronicle</i> *