How Long to Read The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003

How Long Does it Take to Read The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 by Gregg Bordowitz

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Description

The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic. The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness—mine and others'—that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens," writes Gregg Bordowitz, a film- and video-maker whose best-known works, Fast Trip Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), address AIDS globally and personally. In The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous—the title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater Company—Bordowitz follows in the tradition of artist-writers Robert Smithson and Yvonne Rainer by making writing an integral part of an artistic practice. Bordowitz has left his earliest writings for the most part unchanged—to preserve, he says, "both the youthful exuberance and the palpable sense of fear" created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental, sometimes mixing fiction and fact; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal Documents, "New York Was Yesterday." Finally, in his newest essays he reformulates early themes, and, in "My Postmodernism" (written for Artforum's fortieth anniversary issue) and "More Operative Assumptions" (written especially for this book), he reexamines the underlying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns. In his mature work, Bordowitz seeks to join the subjective—the experience of having a disease—and the objective—the fact of the disease as a global problem. He believes that this conjunction is necessary for understanding and fighting the crisis. "If it can be written," he says, "then it can be realized."

How long is The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003?

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 by Gregg Bordowitz is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 aloud.

What Reading Level is The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003?

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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