AIDS Media: Counter-Representations
New American Film and Video Series, 1989, pp. 1-4
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989
This essay, from the catalogue for the exhibition AIDS Media: Counter-Representations, describes how the four films and eighteen videotapes included in the exhibition function as "counter-images" by analyzing the socio-cultural mechanisms that produce AIDS stereotypes.
ITEM 1989.038 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
AIDS News: A Demonstration – Robert Huff
Testing the Limits – Testing the Limits Collective
Dictors, Liars and Women – Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti
Transformer/AIDS – Paper Tiger Southwest
Seize Control of the FDA – Gregg Bordowitz and 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) – Jose Gutierrez
Up in Arms over Needle Exchange – Jean Carlomusto and Hilery
Till Death Do Us Part – Ginny Durrin
Work Your Body – Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto
Danny – Stashu Kybartas
An Individual Desires Solution – Larry Brose
Song from an Angel – David Weissman
Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age – Marc Huestis and Wendy Dallas
The Inaugural Display of the NAMES Project Quilt – David Thompson