Art in the Service of Change: A Conversation about AIDS Activism
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Time: 6:30–7:30pm
Location: Zoom
Formed first in New York in 1987 among LGBTQ activists, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (better known as ACT UP) is an activist group that combats violence and inequities targeting people living with HIV, among other social and political causes. In this talk moderated by World AIDS Museum and Educational Center executive director Dr. Réquel Lopes and Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab deputy director Dr. Julio Capó, Jr., hear from writer Sarah Schulman and artist Avram Finkelstein—two people who have been instrumental in ACT UP's efforts—as they discuss the politics of art in their work. We will randomly select 15 attendees to receive a free copy of either Schulman's Let the Record Show or Finkelstein's After Silence.
Art in the Service of Change: A Conversation about AIDS Activism with Sarah Schulman and Avram Finkelstein is co-presented with The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center, with support from the FIU Center for Women's and Gender Studies and WPHL's grant from the Lepage Center at Villanova University. Organized in conjunction with the WPHL/Wolfsonian virtual exhibition Messages from a Pandemic: AIDS Graphic Communication.
Watch the recorded talk online.
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