Gregg Bordowitz: Conflicting Tendencies

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. 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.