DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992) Untitled (One day this kid . . .) 1990
Carlo McCormick: "[David Wojnarowicz] was doing guerilla art with Julie Hair; he went into the stairwell of Leo Castelli's gallery and poured gallons of cow's blood all over with stencils about hunger on the walls...
But the first guerilla thing I actually ever saw him do was when he made these cock-a-bunnies. He cut out little triangles of white paper for their ears and a little piece of cotton for their tail and stuck them on live cockroaches. They were really cute because they just wobbled around. He made thousands of them and brought them to the 'Beast Show' at PS1. The show was all about artists dealing with animals and he wasn't invited. So he snuck in during the opening and dumped the cock-a-bunnies all over the place."
-from the terrific book David Wojnarowicz: A definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side, published by semiotext(e)
*Listen to David read from his works (which include the excellent The Waterfront Journals, Close to the Knives, and In the Shadow of the American Dream, amongst others) in 1992 here
*View more of his art here
"Fire in My Belly": A Film by David W. with music by Diamanda Galas
Videos of David reading from his work with collages interspersed:
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