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Tour | Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics
PS122 Gallery
Date:
Saturday, July 10, 2021 from 2:00pm–3:00pm
Price: Free
Visual AIDS EventLocation:
PS122 Gallery150 1st Avenue
New York, NY , 10009
United States
On July 10th, Carlo Quispe and Visual AIDS Programs Associate Blake Paskal led an in-person tour of Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics. Through an interactive conversation, Carlo and Blake discussed the full breadth of comics on view, from underground queer strips to AIDS educational projects, superhero comics, and more.
Note: Attendees are required to wear masks while inside the gallery.
Carlo Quispe's comics include Paco, commisioned by Visual AIDS for Strip AIDS 2020, Uranus published by Printed Matter, Inc., Hairy Tales (also an animated short), CARLITO from Paper Rocket Comics and ANITA in WW3 Illustrated #51. carloquispe.com | @carlo_quispe_art
Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics, curated by Paul Sammut for Visual AIDS, explores how artists and activists have used comics to create and shape conversations about HIV and AIDS. As a visual and accessible medium, comics are often employed with the goal of democratizing information, engaging broad audiences, and representing communities erased from public health narratives.
Comic Velocity collects both historical and contemporary educational material, activist projects and artists’ works that demonstrate how the medium of comics continues to contribute to the public understanding of HIV and AIDS through its democracy, accessibility and immediacy. The exhibition features a selection of items from the UK HIV/AIDS Graphic Communication Archive, and the work of creators Alison Bechdel; Remy Boydell with Michelle Perez; Howard Cruse; Jennifer Camper; Kate Charlesworth; Chris Companik; Jon Eikenberg; Gilbert Hernández; Bruce Rapp; James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, and David Wojnarowicz; Carlos Sánchez Becerra; David Shenton; Michael Slocum; Beowulf Thorne; and Robert Walker.
As part of the exhibition, four newly commissioned comics projects from J. Amaro & A. Andrews, Inés Ixierda & Clio Sady, Carlo Quispe, and Mel Rattue are also available as free take-aways. Launched online in summer 2020, these new comics can also be viewed here.
The exhibition is on view Thurs–Sun, 1–6PM through July 11 at PS122 Gallery (150 1st Avenue)