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"There are reasons to be grateful that the previously rare 'In the Shadow of Forward Motion' has been given a chance for resurgence. The fascism of ignorance reigns, and a pandemic has emptied the streets. The White House lawn may once again be dusted with the remains of human lives. Wojnarowicz’s work is a survival guide, a textbook on the power of the body, of grief, and of anger." —Conor Williams, @bombmag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 'David Wojnarowicz: In the Shadow of Forward Motion' facsimile edition with Introduction by Félix Guattari. Published by @primaryinfo⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are still shipping or offering curbside pickup! You can also order from local independents via @bookshop_org or #indiebound⁠⁠⁠. Or order directly from @artbookps1 @artbookhwla or artbook.com.⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #DavidWojnarowicz #intheshadowofforwardmotion #facsimile #pride #lgbtq https://www.instagram.com/p/CByYy95J5yq/?igshid=8mmzdnxw3d5p

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We ❤️Brett Sokol's timely and sensitive picks for summer art book reading @nytimes - Congrats @primaryinfo !! ⁠ "Few modern artists have been as closely associated with artmaking in a time of plague as David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), whose work channeled a burning sense of outrage, first for his friends and lovers as they fell to AIDS, and then for his own looming mortality, as public officials seemed either indifferent or openly hostile to the disease’s victims simply because so many were gay. Wojnarowicz’s diaristic writing took on more complex feelings, as fascinatingly compiled in a handmade catalog he titled “In the Shadow of Forward Motion” to accompany a 1989 solo show.⁠ His gallery, NY’s @ppowgallery didn’t have the budget then for a slick, professionally printed version, so he simply Xeroxed 50 copies for his show’s opening, explaining in its foreword that his samizdat exhibition catalog was simply “rough notes, late night tape recordings, things spoken in sleep and fragmented ideas which at times contradict each other.” He grossly undersold it. Now reissued as a paperback by the archival publisher Primary Information, it offers not only a look into Wojnarowicz’s process, but also his philosophical musings, by turns wistful and playful — yet always with the outside world pressing in. A diagram for how the gallery should hang a wall of his photos is grounded by the notes-to-self scrawled at the bottom of the page: “Pay Rent” and “Doctor 12:30 Thurs.”⁠ ⁠ @letter16press #davidwojnarowicz #intheshadowofforwardmotion https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvkpIsJ52O/?igshid=hl3mvfpbqoph

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Facsimile edition! David Wojnarowicz’s 'In the Shadow of Forward Motion' was originally published as a photocopied zine/artist’s book to accompany an exhibition of the same name at @ppowgallery in 1989. Despite its meager print run of just 50 copies, the publication has garnered a legendary status, and for good reason.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In it we find, for the first time, Wojnarowicz’s writing and visual art, two mediums for which he is renowned, playing off each other in equal measure. We glimpse the artist’s now iconic mixed-media works, with motifs of ants, locomotives, money, tornados and dinosaurs, juxtaposed with journal-like texts or “notes towards a frame of reference” that examine historical and global mechanisms of power symbolized through the technology of their times.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Wojnarowicz uses the fractured experience of his day-to-day life (including dreams, which he recorded fastidiously) to expose these technologies as weapons of class, cultural and racial oppression. The artist’s experience living with HIV is a constant subject of the work, used to shed light on the political and social mechanisms perpetuating discrimination against not only himself, but against women and people of color, who faced additional barriers in their efforts to receive treatment for the illness. Rooted in the maelstrom of art, politics, religion and civil rights of the 1980s, the book provides a startling glimpse into an American culture that we have not yet left behind. Félix Guattari provides an introduction.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent bookstore. Many are still delivering! You can also order from local independents via @bookshop_org or #indiebound⁠⠀⁠⠀ You can also order directly from artbook.com⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Published by @primaryinfo #davidwojnarowicz #intheshadowofforwardmotion #zine #artistsbook #facsimile https://www.instagram.com/p/B-9ySeLJ7HA/?igshid=1hpw68jqskbcq

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