Gregg Bordowitz is a renowned filmmaker, writer, and activist whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney, the New Museum, Artist Space, MoMA (all New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Tate Modern, among others. A major retrospective of his work, Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well, was organised by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, in 2018 and subsequently presented at MoMA PS1 and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In the 1980s, his creative practice was focused on responding to the AIDS crisis. He organised and documented a number of protests against government inaction and advocated for health education and harm reduction as a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP. He also served as a founding member of the 1980s video/film collectives Testing the Limits and Diva TV.
Bordowitz is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003 (2004), General Idea: Imagevirus (2010), Volition (2010), and Glenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man) (2018).
Ayesha Hameed, lives and works in London. Recent commissions including solo and group exhibitions at Bonniers Konsthall (2022) Kunstinstituut Melly (2022), Indigo Waves and Other Stories at Zeitz MOCCA (2022), as well as contributions to the Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennales (2019 and 2021), Momenta Biennale (2021), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). Recent performances have been at Cafe Oto (2024), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid (2023), MACBA, Barcelona,(2020), Akademie der Künste der Welt , Cologne (2019) SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019) and Camden Art Centre (2017)
She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT 2021) and is currently working on two new publications; her series of audio essays Black Atlantis with Strange Attractor Press and the radio series Brown
