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La MaMa La Galleria
6 East First Street, East Village
Through Aug. 3
HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT
A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz
P.P.O.W.
555 West 25th Street, Chelsea
Through Aug. 22
“The Truth About John the Baptist” (1983), by Nicolas Moufarrege
MORE AFTER THE JUMP!
Self portrait David Wojnarowicz
Mike Estabrook's David Wojnarowicz in Heaven
The 1980s East Village art scene and queer-AIDS activist movement, David Wojnarowicz has had his work shown, imitated and honored countless times since his 1992 AIDS-related death at the age 37. This week, Chelsea’s P.P.O.W. gallery continues that tradition, but with a decidedly different twist: through a group show of artists—many of whom are too young to have been Wojnarowicz’s contemporaries, but who have been thoroughly influenced by him nevertheless.
Organized by Dean Daderko for Visual AIDS, a nonprofit organization that tries to increase public awareness of AIDS through the visual arts, the show is sparely and lovingly installed. Ms. Yamaoka, a longtime gay activist, contributes abstract pieces from the 1990s made of mirrors with the reflective coating ripped away. From Ms. Huh comes a tiny but potent zine that catches the punky, street-level-apocalypse energy that this part of town once generated.
With works from the 1980s to the present by Scott Burton, Kate Huh, Nicholas Moufarrege, Martin Wong, and Carrie Yamaoka, Daderko’s project is rooted in the history of the 1980s in New York City where more than 10,000 people were diagnosed with AIDS in 1986. . . . Daderko’s project is a sobering reminder of this history as well as a tribute to those who have been lost to this vicious disease.
