LUX 28: GREGG BORDOWITZ - CONFLICTING TENDENCIES: Exhibition + Talk: 28-31 May 2008

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FAST TRIP LONG DROP
USA, 1993, 54 mins, video




LUX 28
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8.
Free entry. www.lux28.org.uk

LUX is pleased to announce the opening of LUX 28, a new temporary  
exhibition space which will present a year-long investigation into  
how artists’ films and videos are made, discussed and collected.



GREGG BORDOWITZ: CONFLICTING TENDENCIES
Wed 28 May – Sat 31 May
Opening hours: 12-6pm, Wed 28 May – Sat 31 May

For the launch of the project, there will be a week-long presentation  
of the work of artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz. Several of  
Bordowitz’s videos, alongside a range of other texts and related  
materials he has selected, will be on display in the space during the  
day. On 29 May, Bordowitz will give a rare London talk.
A US-based writer and video maker who has been living with AIDS for  
two decades, Bordowitz is almost impossible to classify – his  
practice has consistently eroded the conceptual boundaries between  
art, activism, teaching, writing and performance. A contemporary of  
Andrea Fraser and Mark Dion at the Whitney Independent Study Program  
in New York in the 1990s, he was at the same time a key member of ACT  
UP, a ground-breaking AIDS activism group.
Bordowitz’s videos, including Fast Trip Long Drop (1993), A Cloud In  
Trousers (1995) and Habit (2001), have been widely shown in  
festivals, museums, cinemas and broadcast internationally. His  
writings have been published in anthologies such as AIDS: Cultural  
Analysis, Cultural Activism, and Queer Looks, and numerous  
publications and journals including Village Voice, frieze, Artforum,  
October, Documents and Art Journal. In addition to being a member of  
the faculty of the film department at the School of the Art Institute  
of Chicago, he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent  
Study Program. In 2007/8, he has been a visiting professor at the  
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.


GREGG BORDOWITZ IN PERSON
Thu 29 May 2008 7pm
BOOKING ESSENTIAL to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

Gregg Bordowitz will talk about the conflicting impulses and  
philosophical contradictions that inform his work, drawing from  
literature and theory to examine structures of belief. Followed by a  
conversation with LUX assistant director Mike Sperlinger.










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