Artist David Wojnarowicz discusses right-wing backlash against the NEA and arts funding (circa 1990). Thanks to Kevin Doyle for putting this up on Vimeo. For more commentary, see: merepseudbloged.wordpress.com
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In The Life Media looks at the controversy surrounding the removal of David Wojnarowicz's video installation, "A Fire in My Belly," from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek show at the Smithsonian. The video, which represents the artist's anger as he faced death from AIDS ignited outrage among conservative lawmakers and religious leaders.
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An impromptu collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton. Music from "Devil's Day Off" by David Markey. Clown - David Wojnarowicz, Camera - Steve Doughton. Shot on Ektachrome Type G super-8 in March of 1987, East 13th St. NYC, on rooftop of tenement apartment. Tenants included David Wojanrowiz and Richard Kern.
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People gathered at Transformer and walked to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Dec. 2, 2010 to protest the museum's removal of David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly". Adrian Parsons projected Wojnarowicz video onto NPG.
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NYC 80's artist David Wojnarowicz's 'A Fire In My Belly' was a video work included in the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek show at the National Portrait Gallery. After the Catholic League and Congressman John Boehner cried that it was obscene, Secretary Wayne Clough asked the National Portrait Gallery to remove it from the show. They did. We put it back on their walls.
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"Being Queer in America : A Journal of Disintegration" five. man on second avenue at 2:00 am (nyc): "This guy I know was walking with a friend of his around West Street. They had gone into one of the bars and had a beer and after they left they were walking down the street when this car from Jersey cruised by ... kids came around all the time throwin' bottles and screamin' 'QUEER!' and then taking off--so this car cruised by them real slow and some kid leans out the window sayin', 'Suck my dick!' and my friend flipped him the finger and said something; all of a sudden the car slams on the brakes and give kids come piling outta the doors and start kicking the shit out of my friend ... for the next ten minutes about a hundred guys came outta the bars and from around the corner and surrounded these five kids beating the shit outta my friend--his friend took off right away and later my friend found out that he'd just run home, didn't other calling the cops or nothing ... and all these guys crowding around watching five guys beat up one guy and none of them said or did a fuckin' thing ... my friend said the five kids stomped on his head and chest and broke a lot of his ribs and stomped on his legs ... at one point he could hardly feel them hitting him--they were jumping up and down on his head and arms and legs and finally he said he remembers jumping up and plowing through the crowd and running ... his face was just a puddle of blood ... the kids chased after him but he ran <b>...</b>
How did National David Wojnarowicz Day come to be? Could a middle aged artist turned filmmaker have been inspired by the heroic struggles of a gay activist artist who died in 1992 to speak truth to power in 2010? The answer is a definitive YES! I love the students in this class. They are so open to art. We talked about David Wojnarowicz and looked at his work. I told them about David's difficult life, his abusive childhood, life on the streets as a prostitute, and then his becoming one of the most important artists of his generation. How he clashed with the US government over gay rights and how he tragically died of AIDS before effective treatments were developed. I read them the words of this artwork which is one of the most moving documents for human rights that I have ever seen. In the early days of my teaching here I had a gifted graphic design student named Anthony Milano. Shortly after he graduated from our school, Anthony was abducted by two men at a bar and brutally murdered. These men killed him for being gay. If you are watching this on Youtube, pause this and take the time to read David's words and maybe, like me, you'll think that Americans should pay tribute every year, the day before Thanksgiving to this great artist and human rights advocate. I propose National David Wojnarowicz Day.
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Keiji Suzuki (JPN) - Janusz Wojnarowicz (POL) [+100kg] Judo 2010 World Championships Tokyo Complete judo information and thousands of categorized judo video's of all major judo tournaments since 1961 on www.judo-snijders.nl
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Discussion by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of "Hide/Seek" and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY-Buffalo. "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in LA) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Even as a minimalist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres also had a whimsical, humanistic side that showed the influences of pop art on his installations. In this "portrait" of his deceased partner, Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres created a spill of candies that approximated Ross's weight (175 lbs.) when he was healthy. Viewers are invited to take away a candy until the mound gradually disappears; it is then replenished, and the cycle of life and death continues. While Gonzalez-Torres wanted the viewer/participant to partake of the sweetness of his own relationship with Ross, the candy spill also works as an act of communion. More darkly, the steadily diminishing pile of cheerfully wrapped candies shows the dissolution of the gay community as society ignored the AIDS epidemic. In the moment that the candy dissolves in the viewer's mouth, the participant also receives a shock of recognition at his or her complicity in Ross's demise. "Untitled" by David Wojnarowicz: David Wojnarowicz created this image with his friend and long-time collaborator Marion Scemama only months before Wojnarowicz would receive the death sentence of a positive test for AIDS/HIV. "When I was told that I'd contracted this virus it didn't take me long to realize that I'd contracted a diseased society, as well," Wojnarowicz once said <b>...</b>
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Blue Moon Men's Night Doubles (MND) tennis tournament. July-August, 2010. From Kailua Racquet Club Main Draw 1st Round: Bode / Wojnarowicz vs. Rivers / Westmoreland Video picks up at 6-1, 6-5 in the 1st set.
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Keiji Suzuki (JPN) - Janusz Wojnarowicz (POL) [+100kg] Judo 2011 World Masters Baku. Complete judo information and thousands of categorized judo video's of all major tournaments since 1961 on www.judo-snijders.nl
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www.hideseek.org - lists screenings & discussions of Wojnarovicz http www.ppowgallery.com http www.npg.si.edu Collection of Times coverage of Wojnarowicz www.nytimes.com DSC_2373.MOV
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Keiji Suzuki (JPN) - Janusz Wojnarowicz (POL) [+100kg] Judo 2010 Grand Slam Rio de Janeiro - Brasil Complete judo information and thousands of categorized judo video's on www.judo-snijders.nl
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