Ralph Carl Wushke In Montréal 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…
Author: avantika
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,…
2016, 1996
John Paul Ricco Félix González-Torres, Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991, Wood, light bulbs, acrylic paint and Go-Go dancer in silver lamé bathing suit, sneakers and personal listening device. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. The…
Pleasure, Texture and Digression: Douglas Crimp on Before Pictures
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…
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…