AIDS Media: Counter-Representations
The New American Film and Video Series - Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan.
In this article, curator Lucinda Furlong discusses the show AIDS MEDIA: Counter-Representations, that ran from January 15th to February 5th in 1989 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The show featured four films and eighteen videotapes, all using different techniques to analyze the socio-cultural mechanisms that produce the stereotypes surrounding AIDS, as created, largely, by social institutions that disseminate knowledge and information about the disease.
ITEM 1989.106 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fighting for Our Lives – Ellen Seidler
Fighting for Our Lives – Patrick DuNah
Testing the Limits – The Testing the Limits Collective
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS – Barbara Hammer
AIDS News: A Demonstration – Robert Huff
Doctors, Liars, and Women – Jean Carlomusto
Doctors, Liars, and Women – Maria Maggenti
Transformer / AIDS – Paper Tiger Southwest
Seize Control of the FDA – Gregg Bordowitz
Seize Control of the FDA – Jean Carlomusto
We're Desperate, Get Used to It – Robert Huff
The Helms Amendment – Jean Carlomusto
They Are Lost to Vision Altogether – Tom Kalin
The ADS Epidemic – John Greyson
A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M. – Jerry Tartaglia
The 2nd Epidemic – Amber Hollibaugh
Ojos que no ven (Eyes That Fail to See) – José Gutierrez
Up in Arms over Needle Exchange – Jean Carlomusto
Up in Arms over Needle Exchange – Hilery Joy Kipnis
Til Death Do Us Part – Ginny Durrin
Work Your Body – Gregg Bordowitz
Work Your Body – Jean Carlomusto
Danny – Stashu Kybartas
An Individual Desires Solution – Larry Brose
Song From an Angel – David Weissman
Chuck Soloman: Coming of Age – Marc Huetis
Chuck Soloman: Coming of Age – Wendy Dallas
The Inagural Display of the NAMES Project Quilt – David Thompson