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However Martin hopes that student artists will be inspired by the resourcefulness and persistence of ACT UP, which found means of expression outside of traditional forums. “How can you make sure that the inspiration that the students will feel from this exhibition is going to carry forward? What’s going to happen after the symposium leaves? I don’t think these issues should be forgotten. Nor should the inspiration that one feels when they see how many risks people took to make this work, and also how resourceful the ACT UP members were...
...ACT UP New York” is an invitation to dialogue. “This exhibition is an invitation to go deeper and think about the political, social, and cultural components of the AIDS crisis, and the fact that it continues, and it’s not over,” Marine says...
...very gesture of gathering visual media from the movement into a gallery is to fix ACT UP in time, and to soften its message that the AIDS crisis is ongoing...
...course, not an easy task for students to get involved in symposiums such as “ACT UP New York” or to even find opportunities to exhibit one’s work. “It’s not a lack of motivation, or a lack of will to engage in political issues, it’s just the question of: where is the platform to do it?” Martin says...
Still whether or not “ACT UP New York” will impress the pertinence of the AIDS crisis upon the Harvard population, it serves as an important demonstration of the poignancy of the visual arts...