How AIDS Changed American Art–An Illustrated Lecture
@ Alphawood Gallery
2401 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, at 10 am
On view through Sunday, April 2nd
Widely considered merely a tragic tangent within US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American art since the 1980’s. The repression of AIDS’ role in the making of American culture is entirely consistent with the longstanding repression of public dialogue about AIDS in general—but repression is nonetheless the sign of great power. In this talk, Katz illustrates how AIDS has fundamentally shifted the American cultural landscape, exploring not only the manifold losses AIDS has inflicted, but also how, in response to both AIDS and the prejudice it engendered, a plague has rewritten both the form and content of American art.
Delivered by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of Art AIDS America, and Director of Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY. Opening will be a spoken word performance by avery r. young. Free and open to the public.
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