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The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 19862003 (Writing Art),Used
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The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic.The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. 'So total was the burden of illnessmine and others'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 Bordowitz, a film and videomaker whose bestknown works, Fast Trip Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), address AIDS globally and personally. In The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculousthe title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater CompanyBordowitz follows in the tradition of artistwriters 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 unchangedto preserve, he says, 'both the youthful exuberance and the palpable sense of fear' created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental, sometimes mixing fiction and fact; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal Documents, 'New York Was Yesterday.' 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 underlying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns.In his mature work, Bordowitz seeks to join the subjectivethe experience of having a diseaseand the objectivethe fact of the disease as a global problem. He believes that this conjunction is necessary for understanding and fighting the crisis. 'If it can be written,' he says, 'then it can be realized.'
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