...As you view the works of art, consider different pieces in the gallery from various perspectives. Think about what has been at stake tor scientists in their search for knowledge about HlV/AlDS. How do works of art from, for example, Frank Moore, Robert Sharer, and Carl Tandatnik engage scientific imagery, concepts, and information? Do the artists convey information about the biology of the virus, treatment, or prevention? Think about how art represents the individual experience of living with HlV/AlDS and how that experience changes over time. Look, for example, at the work of Robert Farber, Albert Winn, Laura Splan, Mike Hoolboom, and Frederick Weston. What do these pieces tell us about what it means to be newly diagnosed? To be a Caregiver? To joyfully claim sexuality? To have survived when others have not? Think about how art engages HlV/AlDS as a social phenomenon. In what ways can art about HIV/AIDS be a kind of activism?...
Ann M. Fox and David R. Wessner
Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS
Catalog Brochure for the exhibition at the Van Every/Smith Galleries August 25 - October 5, 2014.
What Happens When a Literary Critic and a Scientist Co-Curate an Exhibition?
Essay by Ann M. Fox and David R. Wessner
As you view the works of art, consider different pieces in the gallery from various perspectives. Think about what has been at stake tor scientists in their search for knowledge about HlV/AlDS. How do works of art from, for example, Frank Moore, Robert Sharer, and Carl Tandatnik engage scientific imagery, concepts, and information? Do the artists convey information about the biology of the virus, treatment, or prevention? Think about how art represents the individual experience of living with HlV/AlDS and how that experience changes over time. Look, for example, at the work of Robert Farber, Albert Winn, Laura Splan, Mike Hoolboom, and Frederick Weston. What do these pieces tell us about what it means to be newly diagnosed? To be a Caregiver? To joyfully claim sexuality? To have survived when others have not? Think about how art engages HlV/AlDS as a social phenomenon. In what ways can art about HIV/AIDS be a kind of activism?
Artists
Robert Farber, Keith Haring, Mike Hoolboom, Shan Kelley, Andrew McPhail, Frank Moore, Robert Sherer, Laura Splan, Carl Tandatnick, Frederick Weston, Jessica Whitbread, and Albert J. Winn.
