Artists and scholars lead gallery conversations based on the major themes of This Will Have Been: Art Love and Politics in the 1980s. At this talk, Gregg Bordowitz discusses the artworks in “Desire and Longing,” which explore the development of appropriation art in relation to the emergence of queer visibility brought on by the AIDS crisis.

Bordowitz is a writer and artist. Currently, he is developing a performance lecture, “Testing Some Beliefs,” which he has delivered in several galleries. He directed and wrote an opera titled The History of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera, which premiered in October 2010 in Vienna, Austria. His most recent book, General Idea: Imagevirus, was published by Afterall Books in 2010. A collection of his writings titled The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003 was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. For this book, Bordowitz received the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association. In addition, he has received a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship among other grants and awards. His films, including Fast Trip Long Drop (1993), A Cloud In Trousers (1995), The Suicide (1996), and Habit (2001) have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters, and broadcast internationally. Professor Bordowitz is currently the Chair of the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.