F.R. DAVID: BLACK SUN
with a reading by editor Will Holder at 8.30pm
Friday February 15, 8pmF.R.DAVID is a typographic journal, edited by Will Holder, and concerned with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practice.
The 17th issue, ‘Black Sun’, is compiled in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen, to accompany the exhibitions ‘David Wojnarowicz Photography & Film 1978–1992, Reza Abdoh,’ and ‘TIES, TALES AND TRACES. Dedicated to Frank Wagner, Independent Curator (1958–2016)’, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
The issue departs from David Wojnarowicz’s grief at the loss of loved ones during the 1980s AIDS crisis, and anger at the US government for their willful neglect of this loss. The issue assembles a chorus of various gendered and sexual positions, all seeking support, love and intimacy in linguistic, architectural and bodily structures, all the while under threat of collapse. These voices are threaded together with excerpts from Julia Kristeva’s white, feminist, psychoanalytical, semiotic ‘Black Sun. Depression and Melancholia (1992).’
F.R.DAVID is co-published by uh books and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
