Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal
history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylvere
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 Sylvere
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.
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