Sign-In
Cart
Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
Paperback
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Art HistoryBiographies GeneralGLBTQIA Studies
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781635900170
Publisher: Semiotexte
Published: Jul 17 2018
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.
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.
Also from
Wojnarowicz, David
Also in
Art History
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Young, Michelle
Hardcover
Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
Sciolino, Elaine
Hardcover
Paint by Sticker: Works of Art: Re-Create 12 Iconic Masterpieces One Sticker at a Time!
Workman Publishing
Paperback
Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid: The First Six Books with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
Art Meets Science
Hardcover
Paint by Sticker Masterpieces: Re-Create 12 Iconic Artworks One Sticker at a Time!
Workman Publishing
Paperback
The Anatomy of Viking Art: A Quick Guide to the Styles of Norse Animal Ornament
Markussen, Jonas Lau
Paperback
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us about the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
Ramsey, Russ
Hardcover
Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students
Thomson, Julie J.
Beggs, Michael
Hardcover
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
Ramirez, Janina
Hardcover
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present
Strickland, Carol
Paperback
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
Wofford, Tobias
Yasumura, Grace
Lemmey, Karen
Hardcover
AP Art History Premium, Sixth Edition: Prep Book with 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice
Barron's Educational Series
Nici, John B.
Paperback
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
Brown, Deidre
Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan
Ellis, Ngarino
Hardcover
The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
Díaz, Gisele
Rodgers, Alan
Paperback
Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
Iskin, Ruth E.
Hardcover
Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers
Slifkin, Robert
Kusama, Yayoi
Zelevansky, Lynn
Hardcover
Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting
Weill, Berthe
Hardcover
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Edsel, Robert M.
Paperback
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
Hoare, Philip
Hardcover
The Squarzi Archive: The Vintage Collection of an Italian Fashion Icon
Ventura, Andrea
Di Giovanni, Mirko
Petrini, David
Hardcover