Journal

Visual AIDS publishes essays, interviews, and other writing related to HIV-positive artists and broader cultural histories of HIV and AIDS.

October 2, 2024
Karla Vera

Let's Imagine the Cure Together: Positiva Residency

Earlier this year, nine artists from Latin American came together in Quito, Ecuador as part of the second edition of Positiva Residency, organized in collaboration with Quito’s Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) and MovHIlizate. Karla Vera, a member of the Positiva team, reports on the project.
September 18, 2024
Keiko Lane

Uncovering

Keiko Lane reflects on the artwork of her friend Cory Roberts-Auli (1963–1996), whose collaborative paintings often used blood as an artistic medium. One of these haunting works is featured on the cover of Lane's memoir Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art, out this week from Duke University Press.
August 8, 2024
Theodore Kerr

Don’t Mourn Consecrate: Talking about Juan González’s historic public art

On October 19, 2023, Theodore Kerr, Leah Sweet, and Nicholas Martin hosted a long table discussion about Juan González’s 1987 installation 'Don’t Mourn Consecrate.' Installed in the storefront windows of the Grey Art Gallery, 'Don’t Mourn' was one of the first public artworks to engage with the AIDS crisis in the US. This transcript documents the discussion, including remarks from six invited presenters as well as audience responses.
August 1, 2024
Teo Pfahler

Pandemic Publications: On AIDS, COVID, and Books

Matteo Pfahler reflects on Pandemics + Books: Publishing HIV/AIDS in the Early COVID Era, an online event from October 2023 that invited authors of HIV-related books with early COVID publication dates to come together and discuss their work, the power of history, and pandemic grief.
June 27, 2024
Theodore Kerr

Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street: Anthony Pellino and his 1983 plan for an AIDS Memorial

Theodore Kerr interviews designer Anthony Pellino about Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street, a park proposal he created as a student at The New School in 1983 that was designed to serve, in part, as an AIDS memorial—currently the earliest known plan for an AIDS memorial in the world.

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Thursday October 24, 2024

Announcing: Finding Aids for the Visual AIDS Archive