Kris Cohen and Abigail Susik The occasion for this interview is Douglas Crimp’s forthcoming book Before Pictures, an autobiographical reflection on art, theory and the queer subcultures of New York in the 1960s and 1970s. The interview was conducted the…
Category: AIDS AND MEMORY
A Ghost in Our House: An Interview with Liz Gibson-DeGroote
Michèle Pearson Clarke Testimonial memory is the ghost that haunts the interstices of historical discourse. – Jean Fisher[1] In her 2012 book, Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, author and AIDS activist Sarah Schulman asks, ‘where are…
Gettin’ ‘Down’ with the ‘Below’: Visual AIDS 2016 & the politics of ‘archival activism’: A Conversation with AJAMU
Christopher Smith When I became aware of the appointment of AJAMU as curator for Visual AIDS 2016, I was delighted at the opportunity to interview, or rather have a conversation with, him. During the course of my doctoral research I…
The Good, the Bad, and the Socially Practiced
Jordan Arseneault and Jon Henry Background to the Dialogue Jordan Arseneault was a visiting artist to the Old Furnace Artist Residency, run by Jon Henry, in late December of 2015. The following conversation grew out of various dinner and…