FOF #2974 - David Wojnarowicz's Art Against AIDS

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

At the height of the AIDS crisis of the late 80s, LGBTQ folks turned to creating art, performance and music to act-up, fight back and fight AIDS.
One of the most powerful voices during the AIDS crisis was David Wojnarowicz, an artist and activist who combined punk music, graffiti, performance, painting and photography into a body of work that celebrated the outsider while speaking out against a hateful government that allowed thousands of Americans to die from AIDS.
Today we’re talking to filmmaker Chris McKim about his new film Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker. The film takes us on a thrilling journey through the AIDS epidemic as David Wojnarowicz weaponized his work to wage war on the establishment's greed and indifference until his death from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 37.
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The film makes David’s art come to life once again by combining his extensive audio and video recordings along with his art and commentary from legends like Fran Lebowittz.
For the first 4 seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Chris McKim worked as the reality TV series’ showrunner and executive producer. Listen as we chat with Chris about the making of Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker and how he helped to create the reality TV juggernaut that made drag a mainstream affair.