Gregg Bordowitz
XXX CSAV - Artists' Research Laboratory | art poetics politics
WORKSHOP
July 2026
Words are gestures are images are letters in artists’ ongoing transdisciplinary projects. The common definition of Poetics often limits the plural noun to poetry, but the methods of writing poetry can be applied to any discipline. Poetics describe the way we put stuff together. We utter the worlds we inhabit. The way we author our world is a matter of Poetics.
We will face tough questions and research alternative histories of thought. We will foster an atmosphere of fearless experimentation grounded in a shared commitment to constructive, generative methods and principles. Art is a special laboratory for fabulous conjecture about the very real problems of governance that shape our daily lives.
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Director
Annie Ratti
Associate Director
Lorenzo Benedetti
Invited Artist
Gregg Bordowitz
The Laboratory will take place from 1 to 24 July 2026.
Gregg Bordowitz’s art includes video, installation, performance, poetry, and prints—different modalities—all organized around the artist's central commitment to writing as an activity of thought manifesting in many forms.
Recent Exhibitions in 2025 include: This is Not a Love Song, the Brick, Los Angeles, February 2nd — March 22nd, 2025, There: a Feeling, Camden Art Centre, January 17th — March 23rd, 2025, Dort: Ein Gefühl, Bonner Kunstverien, September 21st, 2024 - February 2, 2025. In 2018, a major retrospective of his work, Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well, was organized by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, in 2018 and subsequently presented at MoMA PS1 and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bordowitz is the author of The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003 (MIT press, 2004), Genera Idea: Image Virus (Afterall, 2010), Volition (Printed Matter, 2010), Glenn Ligon: Untitled: (I am a Man) (Afterall,2018), Some Styles of Masculinity, (Triple Canopy, 2021).
In the 1980s, his creative practice was focused on responding to the AIDS crisis. He organized and documented a number of protests against government inaction and advocated for health education and harm reduction as a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP. He also served as a founding member of the 1980s video/film collectives Testing the Limits and Diva TV.
The artist is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey (Chicago)
