Gregg Bordowitz and Pamela Sneed: Healthcare Not Warfare

Gregg Bordowitz is a filmmaker, writer, activist and teacher whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, The New Museum, Artist Space, MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and TATE Modern, among others. In the 1980s, Bordowitz focused his creative practice on responding to the AIDS crisis. He organized and documented many protests against government inaction and advocated for health education and harm reduction as a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP and an educator for GMHC. He also served as a founding member of the 1980s video/film collectives Testing the Limits and Diva TV, Bordowitz is currently the director of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, performer and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, Funeral Diva, which was featured in the New York Times and won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award, and other books. She is a 2023 Creative Capital awardee in literature and has also won the Black Queer Art Mentorship Award and a BOFFO Residency. Sneed has published in The Paris Review, Frieze, and others publications. She is a professor at SAIC, where she has been a guest artist for several years, and she teaches across disciplines in Columbia University’s MFA program. Her upcoming performance, A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton, will be at Joe’s Pub March 1 & 2, 2024.

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the steirischerherbst ’23 in Graz.