#Marion Scemama

[oldnewyorklandia]

Marion Scemama. Pier 34/ Rick Prol, 1983.

[karmaalwayswins]

Now Reading:

Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz "A Slow Boat to China" (2021)

[neo-catharsis]

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Watch "Mix - Heroin by David Wojnarowicz" on YouTube

I found out about David through Olivia Laing's book The Lonely City.

This guy was abandoned by his mother and suffered absolutely horrific physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father.

He finally ran away as a teenager becoming a male prostitute in order to have food to eat and a place to sleep. Later in life he became a well-known artist and was one of the foremost spokesmen on AIDS before he succumbed to the disease.

I looked at these videos on YouTube only to find that they had very few views. I want to change that I want more people to know him.

@vaspider

[theworstt]

Los directores de la Galería Civilian Warfare en el East Village, NY, 1984, con máscaras de Luis Frangella. (Foto: Marion Scemama. Cortesía Cosmocosa).

[modalities-of-care]

Artistes Les Ami·e·s du Patchwork des noms, Bambanani Women’s Group, Bastille, yann beauvais, Black Audio Film Collective, Gregg Bordowitz, Jesse Darling, Moyra Davey, Guillaume Dustan, fierce pussy, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hervé Guibert, Barbara Hammer, Derek Jarman, Michel Journiac, Zoe Leonard, audrey liebot, Pascal Lièvre, Santu Mofokeng, Jean-Luc Moulène, Henrik Olesen, Bruno Pélassy, Benoît Piéron, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jimmy Robert, Régis Samba-Kounzi & Julien Devemy, Marion Scemama, Lionel Soukaz & Stéphane Gérard, Georges Tony Stoll, Philippe Thomas, David Wojnarowicz & arms ache avid aeon: fierce pussy amplified (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, fierce pussy and Jo-ey Tang)

Curator François Piron

Scientific advisor Elisabeth Lebovici

Curatorial assistant Clément Raveu

Exhibition assistant Rose Vidal

[richtw28]

High and Light Contrast

The image above by Marion Scemama demonstrates a strong tonal contrast. As you can see the floor and doorway are really dark. The painting on the wall is dark but it has some light gray/white.

This is artwork is by Marwan Rechmaoui. I would say this image is a soft contrast compared to the one above. The gray in the image is really light. In addition, the yellow makes it soft.

[tomafome]

David Wojnarowicz, A FIRE IN MY BELLY (1986-1989, Super 8mm) from Rosa von Praunheim’s Silence=Death (00:04:10m excerpt, beginning at 00:49:21m). Image: Film Still: Ants on Crucifix (Color print from Kodachrome slide, 20 × 25,1 cm). This edit, done by Wojnarowicz with help from his frequent collaborator Marion Scemama, includes scenes from Mexico, etc... presented in their original order, but edited down and intercut with other footage. The first three minutes of the segment are accompanied by audio from an interview between Wojnarowicz and von Praunheim, before Diamanda Galás’s This is the Law of the Plague comes on (beginning at 00:52:18), over footage of ants crawling on a crucifix, filmed in Mexico. In The David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base

[marcogiovenale]

hope is a chain of submission: 4 films_ free+online till today or may 14th_ thx to the centre d'art contemporain genève

hope is a chain of submission: 4 films_ free+online till today or may 14th_ thx to the centre d’art contemporain genève

HOPE IS A CHAIN OF SUBMISSION (Partie I) Une proposition de Stéphanie Moisdon Avec les œuvres de Marion Scemama, Sturtevant, Bernadette Corporation & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster « Hope is a chain of submission », cette phrase qui a valeur de manifeste résonne avec force dans l’essai sur David Wojnarowicz de Marion Scemama. Elle affecte et innerve l’ensemble de cette sélection proposée par…

[duchampscigarette]

David Wojnarowicz - Untitled, from the “Sex Series (for Marion Scemama)” (1989)

[oldnewyorklandia]

Marion Scemama. Pier 34/ David Wojnarowicz (Cow).

[whitneymuseum]

Back by popular demand: on Sunday, September 23, the Whitney will host a screening of Marion Scemama’s film, Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: A Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1988—1991 (2018). Based on an interview with David Wojnarowicz conducted by Sylvère Lotinger in ‘89, the film intercuts scenes of Wojnarowicz with previously unseen footage from David Wojnarowicz Papers, Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University; P.P.O.W and the Estate of David Wojnarowicz; and Marion Scemama personal archives. Scemama will speak with Whitney Curator David Breslin following the screening.

[Image courtesy Marion Scemama]

[chainsawpunk]

David Wojnarowicz, Sex Series (For Marion Scemama), 1989-1990, number two from an edition of twelve plus one artist's proof, eight vintage gelatin silver prints, in artist's frames, 16 x 19 13⁄16 (40.6 x 50.3 cm.)

[fixy8ed4xys]

David's unfinished film project "Heroin" was salvaged by Marion Scemama from Fales Library. I have only vague memories of filming this with David, Brian Butterick and John Hall at the piers in NYC. Here is an edited version using one of the earliest recordings by 3TK4 called "3 Teens Kill 4 No Motive". Both the film and the song were done around 1981. Thank you Marion Scemama and François Pain. Jesse Hultberg

[scorrrpiorrrising]

David Wojnarowicz

When I Put My Hands on Your Body (collaboration with Marion Scemama), 1989/2014

Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.

[oddstructure]

Memoir Of Disintegration [Live] with Nan Goldin // CTM Festival 2015 from Soundwalk Collective on Vimeo.

Rebelliously struggling against conformity and materialism, multidisciplinary artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz was one of the most potent voices of his generation. Born in New Jersey in 1954, Wojnarowicz lived an extremely difficult childhood brought on by an abusive family life and an emerging sense of his own homosexuality. He dropped out of high school and was living on the streets by the age of sixteen, eventually settling in New York's East Village in 1978. As part of the first wave of East Village artists he befriended and collaborated with many notable artists, including photographer Nan Goldin. By the late 1970s Wojnarowicz’s work took on a focus of “making and preserving an authentic version of history that would contest state-supported forms of ‘history.’” (Wojnarowicz)

Wojnarowicz’s perspective from the fringe directly opposed the idea of a nicely tuned, harmonic society, instead promoting the uncontrollable noise of radical diversity. Diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, his art took on a more sharply political edge regarding medical research and funding, and morality and censorship in the arts. He died of AIDS-related illness in New York in 1992, at age 37.

CTM 2015’s Opening Concert on 24 January pays homage to Wojnarowicz’s powerful untuned stance through the world premiere of the latest work by Soundwalk Collective with American photographer Nan Goldin and video artist Tina Frank. "A Memoir Of Disintegration" is a sound composition based on David Wojnarowicz’s homonymous and provocative correspondence that explores and captures existence at the margin of society in 1980s underground New York City. An intense and dark journey over street life, drugs, art and nature, politics, friendship, and acceptance, the live performance features Nan Goldin interpreting the most expressive excerpts of Wojnarowicz’s writings. Soundwalk Collective perform a live musical score thick with jarring physicality juxtaposed to a sound memento of field recordings from New York City throughout the past two decades. With live visuals from video artist Tina Frank, and Samuel Rohrer on drums.

Film by Barbara Klein

The live visuals consist of excerpts of the following films:

Richard Kern
From the series American Obsessions 1983
 Featuring David Wojnarowicz 
Super 8 on digital video, color, silent 
1:21 min
Courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

Richard Kern
You Killed Me First 1985
 Featuring David Wojnarowicz, Nick Cooper, Jessica Craig- Martin, Karen Finley, Montanna Houston, Lung Leg
Music by J.G. Thirlwell 
Super 8 on digital video, color, sound
 12:00 min
Courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz 
Last Night I Took A Man 1989
 Performance and Dialogue: David Wojnarowicz Camera and Direction: Marion ScemamaSuper 8 on digital video, color, sound
 4:33 min
Courtesy of Marion Scemama, the Estate of David Wojnaorwicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz
 Where Evil Dwells 1985
 Featuring Joe Coleman, Devil Doodie, Baby Gregor, Richard Klemann, Lung Leg, Jack Nantz, Rockets Redglare, Tommy Turner, Charlotte Webb, Scott Werner, David Wojnarowicz Music by AC/DC, J.G. Thirlwell and Wiseblood
Super 8 on digital video, black and white, sound 
31:10 min
Courtesy of Tommy Turner, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

David Wojnarowicz
 Heroin 1981 
16 mm film on digital video, black and white, silent 
2:33 mins
Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

David Wojnarwociz
 A Fire In My Belly (Excerpt) 1986-87
 Super 8 on digital video, black and white, color, silent 7:00 min
Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

David Wojnarowicz
 Beautiful People 1988 featuring Jesse Hultberg 
Super 8 on digital video, silent 34 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York

David Wojnarowicz 
ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion) Collaboration with Ben Neill
originally performed in 1989, audio recorded in 1991 DVD
22 minutes, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York