Category: AIDS AND MEMORY

A Political Sense of Being at Home with HIV and Video

Alexandra Juhasz (in conversation with Jih-Fei Cheng and Lucas Hilderbrand, and Adam Geary, Theodore Kerr, Nishant Shahani, Dagmawi Woubshet, and others)[1]   Queer time and place register and change in media and conversation about HIV and the bodies and domiciles…

‘Pray to be released from image’[1]: Mourning, Desire and Self-Erasure in Derek Jarman’s Blue

Oliver Penny The apparent choices of art are nothing but addictions, pre-dispositions. The aesthetic is nothing but a return to images that will allow nothing to take their place. Elizabeth Bowen, ‘Out of a Book,’ The Mulberry Tree   Trauma…

Sick Memory: On the Un-detectable in Archiving Aids

Katrin Köppert and Todd Sekuler   Introduction In 2015, the self-acclaimed progressive men’s magazine the VANGARDIST published a special edition labeled #HIVHEROES as a reminder that being HIV-positive is still a stigma and a taboo. Printed with ink infused with…

Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors

Ryan Conrad …history is a process of generalization, an elevator pitch, and we privilege the stories that are easier to tell. In the public sphere, complexities are frequently slipped under the shadows of our zeitgeists, and well-worn media tropes supplant…