Artists Space

Gregg Bordowitz:
One Night Only

Lecture
June 5, 2025, 7pm

A lecture performance by Gregg Bordowitz, part of the current exhibition LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp.

A figure stands behind a microphone stand, one hand raised to their chin and the other arm up and pointing away from themselves. The figure stands in front of a blank background.
Gregg Bordowitz, Open Book: Letters, Marks, Politics, 2024, lecture performance, Bonner Kunstverein. Photo: Max Beck. [A figure stands behind a microphone stand, one hand raised to their chin and the other arm up and pointing away from themselves. The figure stands in front of a blank background.]

Keywords: activism, alprazolam, art, betrayal, censorship, complacency, complicity, critical-theory, eschatology, faith, improvisation, illness, independence, institutional-critique, Marxism, mendacity, mortality, museum, negation, practice, program, service, structural-determinism, study, testimony, volition, vulnerability, witness…

Gregg Bordowitz’s art includes video, installation, performance, poetry, and prints—different modalities—all organised around the artist's central commitment to writing as an activity of thought manifesting in many forms. Words are gestures are images are letters in this artist's ongoing transdisciplinary project.

His most recent exhibitions include There: a Feeling at Camden Arts Centre (2025); This Is Not A Love Song at The Brick; Dort: ein Gefühl at Bonner Kunstverein (2024-25).