Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simply, Art as Medicine/Medicine as Art turns the private clinic into public art. In the space of the Zinberg clinic, staff and patients were shown to the public, bringing viewers face-to-face with the reality of human disease and medical treatment. Participants create a political and educational action from their personal suffering, sacrificing their intimacy and privacy for the sake of a larger project...
...clinic in Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine exhibit is an eight by ten foot structure with two doctor's-office white walls, and an exposed front and back, by means of which the audience is invited to observe the clinic in action. Avery situated the three dimensional structure of the clinic in an environment of two dimensional traditional art pieces. The outside of the white walls are covered with a wallpaper based on a 1749 century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, entitled Prison VII. A wood-block pattern of the life-cycle of HIV is incorporated into the Piranesi etching...
Avery's installation alters the disease to the point of ominous abstraction. A traditional sterile hospital bed and two metal chairs are housed between the two walls and a gabled pine-rafter roof. Beach ball-sizes models of the HIV virus hang from the gallery ceiling over the clinic's roof. These black balls, marked by a wood-cut print of the HIV virus's polka-dot structure, envelop patient, doctor, and visitor alike...
...addition to integrating the clinic into the museum physically, Avery attempts to conceptually integrate his structure by modeling his clinic on the architectural structures in the museum's surrounding art-works -- in this case the architectural prints featured in the "New York/Rome" exhibit. The roof of the clinic structure, for example, is modeled on the temple depicted in a 17th century print by Gerard Audran of the Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome.. By merging his installation into the museum's high-brow art works, Avery intends to enshrine the clinic. He wants to recreate the medical world within...
...unfortunate that the actual practice of medicine within the clinic lasted only two days; though it was brilliant while it lasted, two days is hardly enough time to expose a large audience to the work...