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...ACT Up New York,” will struggle valiantly against these conditions to create what they hope will be an active discussion on campus...
...even though the movement was so pervasive in its time, its history seems to have fallen out of the public eye. “I found that a lot of younger people did not know what ACT UP was,” says Molesworth, citing one of the reasons why she decided to put on the exhibition. “And I thought it was really curious that the history was so fragile that could be lost in perhaps a 20 year period...
Despite its present invisibility, ACT UP, or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, continues its work and remains relevant. The right to health care is one of its legacies, and a project that still resonates strongly today. And more locally, infection rates among men aged 18-35 are on a rise in Boston...
...disseminating information about AIDS on campus, “ACT UP” seeks to reverse the policy, and the mentality that underlies it. “I think anonymous testing is something that needs to be available to students and to everyone,” Grace says. “I think it’s an important thing for the university to consider. Among other things that’s one of the shifts that I’m hoping to see happen...
...order for “ACT UP” to be more than just another exhibition and to actually affect such change, it needs to have a reach beyond the activist and artist community. “One of the most wonderful things about this exhibition, and about visual arts in general, is that it can provide us with an opportunity to really strike at a topic from many different disciplinary perspectives. Because this is such an essential historical material and one that has really been lacking in popular consciousness now—or at least on campus?...