{"product_id":"weight-of-the-earth-the-tape-journals-of-david-wojnarowicz-paperback","title":"Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Wojnarowicz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLisa Darms\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist, 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, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand 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.\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003ethe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a painter, filmmaker, photographer, writer, AIDS activist, and one of the most prominent figures in the New York art world of the 1980s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa Darms is a writer, archivist and art appraiser. As the senior archivist at NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections, she worked with the archives of many downtown artists, including David Wojnarowicz. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Riot Grrrl Collection\u003c\/i\u003e, which Sheila Heti called \"alive with intimacy, passion, anger, and fun.\" She lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid O'Neill is a writer in New York and the managing editor of \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Velasco is the editor of \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eSarah Michelson\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730181722175,"sku":"9781635900170","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/47bb0231d7d364113a0c2dd409853484.webp?v=1765125135","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/weight-of-the-earth-the-tape-journals-of-david-wojnarowicz-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}