WEIGHT OF THE EARTH—THE TAPE JOURNALS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ is a collection of “audio journals that document Wojnarowicz’s turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.”*

Artforum editor David Velasco has written an introduction for book, out now from Semiotext(e).

WEIGHT OF THE EARTH—THE TAPE JOURNALS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, edited by Lisa Darms and David O’Neill (South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2018).*

Top: Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar at an opening at Civilian Warfare Gallery in the East Village, 1983.

Above: David Wojnarowicz, Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison, 1983.

Below: Wojnarowicz.