#WorldAIDSDAY This first slide and caption via @lgbt_history: “There is a tendency for people
#WorldAIDSDAY This first slide and caption via @lgbt_history: “There is a tendency for people affected by this epidemic to police each other or prescribe what the most important gestures would be for dealing with this experience of loss. I resent that. At the same time, I worry friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, polishing their funeral speeches, perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets. I worry because of the urgency of the situation, because of seeing death coming in from the edges of abstraction where those with the luxury of time have cast it. I imagine what it would be like if friends had a demonstration each time a lover or a friend or a stranger died of AIDS. I imagine what it would be like if, each time a lover, friend or stranger died of this disease, their friends, lovers or neighbors would take the dead body and drive with it in a car a hundred miles an hour to washington d.c. and blast through the gates of the white house and come to a screeching halt before the entrance and dump their lifeless form on the front steps… . Bottom line, we have to find our own forms of gesture and communication. You can never depend on the mass media to reflect us or our needs or our states of mind.” – David Wojnarowicz (Sept. 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) . Picture: “IF I DIE OF AIDS–FORGET BURIAL–JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA,” David Wojnarowicz, ACT UP’s FDA action, Oct. 11, 1988. Photo by Bill Dobbs. . David Wojnarowicz, who died 28 years ago today, was one of the most prominent and prolific mixed-media artists of the ‘80s and early ‘90s. As a writer, performer, visual artist, and AIDS activist, he presented a brutally honest and unapologetically confrontational look at life and death in late 20th-century america. . Wojnarowicz’s vision of “dump[ing] lifeless forms” helped inspire the AIDS political funeral, during which friends carried the dead “in public protest to shock the public’s conscience.” . Wojnarowicz died from AIDS-related illness on July 22, 1992; he was 37. ✨[ second slide via @visual_aids ] https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9naM6tadT/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link
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