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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
This volume collects four tales interspersed with ink drawings by the artist which illustrate his memoirs on gay love, memory and desire in contemporary America.
Leigh Bowery - The Life and Times of an Icon
A biography and tribute to a colourful unique and larger than life character, written by his close friend.
Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology
This book and the exhibition launched with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Pepe Espaliu
Monograph. Includes artworks and writings by Pepe Espaliu, introductory essay by Juan V. Aliaga, with additional essays by Adrian Searle and Marie-Laure Bernadac.
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
A look at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Cruising Utopia considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.
Artist Op-Eds - Polemic of Blood Ron Athey on the “Post-AIDS” Body
Ron Athey contributes to the fourth installment of the Walker Art Center Artist Op-Eds series. Examining the thinking of artists as citizens and change-makers, this series of commissioned opinion pieces features provocative reactions to the headlines.
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
This publicationis a polemic, provocative account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death.
In The Shadow of the American Dream: the Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
Diaries of the artist David Wojnarowicz, capturing the emotional, sexual and political chaos of modern urban life.
