Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to
understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as
they develop in real time. In these moments I hate language. I hate
what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these preformed
gestures on the tip of my tongue, or through my lips, or through
the inside of my mouth, forming sounds to approximate something
that's like a cyclone, or something that's like a flood, or
something that's like a weather system that's out of control,
that's dangerous, or alarming.... It just seems like sounds that
have been uttered back and forth maybe now over centuries. And it
always boils down to the same meaning within those sounds, unless
you're more intense uttering them, or you precede them or accompany
them with certain forms of violence. -from The Weight of the Earth
Artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was an
important figure in the downtown New York art scene. His art was
preoccupied with sex, death, violence, and the limitations of
language. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, Wojnarowicz began
keeping audio journals, returning to a practice he'd begun in his
youth.The Weight of the Earth presents transcripts of these tapes,
documenting Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his
anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop
in real time. In these taped diaries, Wojnarowicz talks about his
frustrations with the art world, recounts his dreams, and describes
his rage, fear, and confusion about his HIV diagnosis. Primarily
spanning the years 1987 and 1989, recorded as Wojnarowicz took
solitary road trips around the United States or ruminated in his
New York loft, the audio journals are an intimate and affecting
record of an artist facing death. By turns despairing, funny,
exalted, and angry, this volume covers a period largely missing
from Wojnarowicz's written journals, providing us with an essential
new record of a singular American voice.
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