Category: AIDS AND MEMORY

Les instants de mes morts, After Blanchot[1]

Ralph Carl Wushke In MontrĂ©al in the spring of 1987, I remember a boy—neither young nor old—flushed with the delight of a night on the town, (un)aware of the imminent dangers of the body and its pleasures also. The night…

Epidemics and their Metaphors

Amy Kazymerchyk All images: Lili Reynaud-Dewar, My Epidemic (Teaching Bjarne Melgaard’s Class). SFU SCA Seminar with Alexandra Best, Kayla Elderton, Jorma Kujala, Siena Locher-Lo, Chris Mark, Emily Marston, Weifeng Tang, Cory Woodcock, Sitong Wu, Viki Wu, Nicholas Yu. Installation view,…

AIDS 1969: HIV, History, and Race

Theodore (Ted) Kerr All images by and courtesy the artist. Introduction #stoperasingblackpeople was the hashtag created by the Tacoma Action Committee (TAC) in 2015 as part of their die-in, protesting the exhibition, Art AIDS America, curated by Jonathan David Katz…

Can a Computer Remember AIDS?

­Cait McKinney Irwin Winkler, The Net (still depicting Angela Bennett ordering pizza), 1995. If you saw The Net when it came out in 1995, you might remember certain Internet wow moments performed by the film’s protagonist Angela Bennett (played by…

Biomedical Nostalgia in Crisis

Stephanie Youngblood Lili Reynaud-Dewar, My Epidemic (Teaching Bjarne Melgaard’s Class). SFU SCA Seminar with Alexandra Best, Kayla Elderton, Jorma Kujala, Siena Locher-Lo, Chris Mark, Emily Marston, Weifeng Tang, Cory Woodcock, Sitong Wu, Viki Wu, Nicholas Yu. Installation view, Audain Gallery,…