LOVE AIDS RIOTS.

The article offers a look at AIDS activism in the U.S. in the 1980s and explores how the surge of interest in 1980s AIDS activists, such as ACT UP, General Idea and Gran Fury, shows how art can effect real change. Topics covered include how the revisiting of AIDS activism be carried out without curt...

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Publicado en:Art Monthly no. 423; pp. 6 - 11
Autor principal: MCCORMACK, CHRIS
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Art Monthly Feb-2019
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Sumario:The article offers a look at AIDS activism in the U.S. in the 1980s and explores how the surge of interest in 1980s AIDS activists, such as ACT UP, General Idea and Gran Fury, shows how art can effect real change. Topics covered include how the revisiting of AIDS activism be carried out without curtailing the necessary exchange with present discourses surrounding those who are living with HIV or AIDS, and exhibitions that have begun to help sociopolitically situate AIDS.