Gregg Bordowitz: An Interview

Gregg Bordowitz is a writer, AIDS activist, and film and videomaker. His work, including Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), documents his personal experiences of testing positive and living with HIV within the context of a personal and global crisis. His writings are collected in The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings:1986-2003. 

Bordowitz talks with interviewer Solveig Nelson about his art education at home and his exposure to art and culture as a young adult living in New York City in the 1980s. Naming the artists and friends who supported and influenced his work, he talks about queer culture, making television, developing a video art practice, and becoming an activist with ACT-UP and in the gay community in NYC. This interview covers Bordowitz's early career and is intended to eventually have a follow up to examine his later work.