Critical Writing Index

We Are All Living With AIDS

by Catherine Saalfield

In this exhibition catalog/manifesto, Catherine Saalfield discusses that ways that the Muu Media Festival, titled We Are All Living With AIDS, attempts to use media aggressively to reach the “general public,” a much more diverse audience than mainstream media considers it. The festival features 28 directors, using formats from the music video to the documentary, and aiming their work at demographics spanning social divides such as race, class, and sexual orientation. Saalfield’s goal is to bring AIDS education and the empowerment to put it to use to all of the diverse public.

ITEM 1992.087 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

This is a Condom – Direct Effect

Bolo! Bolo! – Gita Saxena, Ian Rashid

DHPG Mon Amour – Carl Michael George

Current Flow – Jean Carlomusto, Gregg Bordowitz

Untiteled – John Sanborn, Mary Perillo

Fighting Chance – Richard Fung

They Are Lost To Vision All Together – Tom Kalin

GANG Public Service Announcement – GANG Collective

Her Giveaway – Mona Smith

This Is Not An AIDS Advertisment – Isaac Julien

Safe Sex Slut – Carol Leigh

Identities – Nino Rodriquez

Target City Hall – DIVA TV collective

Gots To Be A Drag – David Bronstein

We Interrupt This Program – Charles Atlas

This Is A Dental Dam – Suzanne Wright, DIVA TV

Fear Of Disclosure – Phil Zwickler, David Wojnarowicz

Steam Clean – Richard Fung

Keep Your Laws Off My Body – Catherine Saalfield, Zoe Leonard

Kissing Doesn't Kill – Gran Fury collective

Tongues Untied – Marlon Riggs

The Ads Epidemic – John Greyson

(In)visible Women – Marina Alvarez, Ellen Spiro