United by AIDS
An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV / AIDS
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Beschreibung
HIV / AIDS writes many stories in life and in art: a survey of art and activism in response to a severe, global disease
The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the 1980s and its rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in society. The illness itself and its effects on society have also caused manifold responses by artists and activists in many countries.
United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Zurich’s Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Migros Museum for Contemporaray Art), sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. It examines the blurred boundaries between art production and HIV/AIDS activism and showcases artists who played—and still play leading roles in this discourse. Alongside images of artworks and brief texts on the represented artists, the book features voices from the past and present. Essays by Douglas Crimp, Alexander García Düttmann, Raphael Gygax, Elsa Himmer, Ted Kerr, Elisabeth Lebovici ,and Nurja Ritter broaden the view oft he international discourse on HIV/AIDS society’s confrontation with the disease.
- Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach seinem ersten Auftreten in den hochentwickelten Ländern ist HIV/AIDS nach wie vor eine grosse globale Herausforderung
- Die Krankheit hat weltweit eine Vielzahl politischer und künstlerischer Diskurse und Aktionen bewirkt
- Das Buch bietet einen Überblick der vielfältigen Auseinandersetzung mit HIV/AIDS von den 1980er-Jahren bis heute
- An illustrated reader on art activism in response to HIV/AIDS
- Offers a wide-ranging survey of nearly forty years’ grapple with the disease
- Forty years after its first appearance in the Western World, HIV/AIDS remains a major challenge to society around the globe
Autor*in
Raphael Gygax
Themen in »United by AIDS«
Art HIV AIDS Loss Kunst Memory Disease Verlust Activism Krankheit Aktivismus Erinnerung Zeitfragen Kunstaktion Aktionskunst