Word: art
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...art world is filled with gay people,” Molesworth adds. “And gay men were really the first group of people who were hit by the disease...
Just as the ACT UP movement naturally attracted a diverse group of people, so did this event. “We were approached by the Harvard Art Museum and specifically Claire, and met with them about the idea of collaboration,” says Stella Gukasayan, Program Coordinator at Harvard University Center for AIDS Research who is organizing one of the events. “Before they approached us to discuss that, Laura Bogart, a faculty who is part of the Harvard University Center for AIDS research, and I were working together to plan this HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma...
...organizers made sure to appeal to a wide audience on campus. “ACT UP New York” involves students directly as well. “I got excited about the idea of students engaging in something as hard core and high profile as the Harvard Art Museum symposium,” says Trevor J. Martin ’10, who is putting on a performance art piece in conjunction with “ACT UP New York.” “It’s pretty much unprecedented for students to get really involved...
Students will also have the opportunity to work with members Fierce Pussy, an artist collective who were heavily involved in the movement and whose work will be featured in the exhibition, sponsored by the Women’s Center of Harvard College. “They did action art in order to wake up the culture and the society at the time to the AIDS crisis and to other issues related to AIDS including gender identity, construction, and explorations of how art, gender and sexuality intersect,” says Susan Marine, director of the Women’s Center...
...that the students can use the ACT UP symposium as a platform where they can really take some artistic risks,” says Martin, who thinks the artistic handling of AIDS bears the situating of body in space. “My personal feeling is that the art students here and also the students interested in the arts really don’t take the same amount of risks even though we have more liberty to do so. I really wanted to latch onto this opportunity to do a performance piece with students at the symposium in the exhibition...