Soundwalk Collective ‘A Memoir Of Disintergration with Nan Goldin, Samuel Rohrer, Tina Frank’. Video by Barbara Klein

A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION
with Nan Goldin, Samuel Rohrer, Tina Frank

2015

CTM Festival Berlin (DE)
Nuits Sonores Lyon (FR)

Rebelliously struggling against conformity and materialism, multidisciplinary artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz was one of the most potent voices of his generation. Born in New Jersey in 1954, Wojnarowicz lived an extremely difficult childhood brought on by an abusive family life and an emerging sense of his own homosexuality. He dropped out of high school and was living on the streets by the age of sixteen, eventually settling in New York’s East Village in 1978. As part of the first wave of East Village artists he befriended and collaborated with many notable artists, including photographer Nan Goldin. By the late 1970s Wojnarowicz’s work took on a focus of “making and preserving an authentic version of history that would contest state-supported forms of ‘history.’” (Wojnarowicz)

Wojnarowicz’s perspective from the fringe directly opposed the idea of a nicely tuned, harmonic society, instead promoting the uncontrollable noise of radical diversity. Diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, his art took on a more sharply political edge regarding medical research and funding, and morality and censorship in the arts. He died of AIDS-related illness in New York in 1992, at age 37.

CTM 2015’s Opening Concert on 24 January pays homage to Wojnarowicz’s powerful untuned stance through the world premiere of the latest work by Soundwalk Collective with American photographer Nan Goldin and video artist Tina Frank. “A Memoir Of Disintegration” is a sound composition based on David Wojnarowicz’s homonymous and provocative correspondence that explores and captures existence at the margin of society in 1980s underground New York City. An intense and dark journey over street life, drugs, art and nature, politics, friendship, and acceptance, the live performance features Nan Goldin interpreting the most expressive excerpts of Wojnarowicz’s writings. Soundwalk Collective perform a live musical score thick with jarring physicality juxtaposed to a sound memento of field recordings from New York City throughout the past two decades. With live visuals from video artist Tina Frank, and Samuel Rohrer on drums.

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Film by Barbara Klein
The live visuals consist of excerpts of the following films:

Richard KernFrom the series American Obsessions 1983
Featuring David Wojnarowicz
Super 8 on digital video, color, silent

1:21 minutes, courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
Richard KernYou Killed Me First 1985
Featuring David Wojnarowicz, Nick Cooper, Jessica Craig-
Martin, Karen Finley, Montanna Houston, Lung LegMusic by J.G. Thirlwell
Super 8 on digital video, color, sound

12:00 minutes, courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz
Last Night I Took A Man 1989
Performance and Dialogue: David Wojnarowicz Camera and Direction: Marion ScemamaSuper 8 on digital video, color, sound

4:33 minutes, courtesy of Marion Scemama, the Estate of David Wojnaorwicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz
Where Evil Dwells 1985
Featuring Joe Coleman, Devil Doodie, Baby Gregor, Richard Klemann, Lung Leg, Jack Nantz, Rockets Redglare, Tommy Turner, Charlotte Webb, Scott Werner, David Wojnarowicz Music by AC/DC, J.G. Thirlwell and WisebloodSuper 8 on digital video, black and white, sound

31:10 minutes, courtesy of Tommy Turner, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
David Wojnarowicz
Heroin 1981
16 mm film on digital video, black and white, silent

2:33 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
David Wojnarwociz
A Fire In My Belly (Excerpt) 1986-87
Super 8 on digital video, black and white, color, silent

7:00 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
David Wojnarowicz
Beautiful People 1988 featuring Jesse Hultberg
Super 8 on digital video, silent

34 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz
and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
David Wojnarowicz
ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion)
Collaboration with Ben Neilloriginally performed in 1989, audio recorded in 1991 DVD 22 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

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