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Watching Sylvere Lotringer's video Interview of David Wojnarowicz at P.P.O.W. By John Ranard David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992, two years before reaching his 40th birthday, but he didn’t die with a whimper. He took on the virus and the culture it came out of with a virility derived from his confessional artwork. He was a lion among the artists who, in the ’80s, made the East Village’s rubble-strewn streets their home. It’s fitting that Wojnarowicz’s last stand, a pitched battle against religious and political moralists Senator Jesse Helms and crew, was held at his 1991 retrospective exhibition, “Tongues of Flame,” in Normal, Ill., at the University of Southern Illinois. The exhibition was awarded, then lost, a $15,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for its catalogue. On view at P.P.O.W., at 555 W. 25th St., is a videotape in which Sylvere Lotringer and the artist discuss Wojnarowicz’s place in history. Also for sale there is Lotringer’s book “David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side,” published by Semiotext. Several of Wojnarowicz’s doctored silver gelatin prints hang in the back room along with silkscreen prints.
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