, 1984 w An Intervie ens: Craig Ow e Horsfield, Lyn Blumenthal and Kat tesy Lyn Blementhal Cour (video still).
of self-reflexivity that so intensely shaped his intellectual practice. The rarity of this document, the sole publicly available film showing the writer, carries an emotional force. Indeed, this dimension is unintentional and retrospective: the video was made before Owens received the HIV diagnosis that led to his death in 1990, at the age of 39. In contrast, many other films that feature a person whose life was taken by the disease, including recent works, explicitly memorialize their subject. In 2023, experimental film and video artists Lionel Soukaz and Stéphane Gérard assembled sequences of the former’s video diary Journal Annales . The result, Artistes en zone troublés , is a poignant portrait of Soukaz’s lover Hervé Couergou, who died of AIDS in the 1990s. What is deeply striking about Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Untitled (John Giorno reads) (2008) and P. Staff’s The Foundation (2015), two works included in the show Homage: Queer Lineages on
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