Over the years, the ICI has accumulated a small collection of ephemera related to the AIDS pandemic. Whether free postcards or newspaper ads, broadsides of guerilla semiotics or artist projects that appropriate, re-appropriate and invert cultural icons and forms, these objects are silent but poignant reminders of a pandemic and some of its horrible and traumatic but also inspired and beautiful consequences that have helped shape global culture for almost 30 years now.
How to use this site:
Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
ICI Connections
AIDS AIDS Book Bataille's Eye Behind the Curtain Technologies Body as Model Body as Sign Books to inspire Building as Sign Buttons Collective Camouflage Dead Dirt Dust DWA Epistemophilia Firsts Galt Hidden in Plain Sight Hidden in Plain Site Image-text gaps Lasts Liber Creature Lists Man's History of Photography Manual of Lost Ideas Marginalia Masonry Nature as Model Out Photography's History of Us Plagues Playing cards Raw Material Re-membering roundness Sebaldiana Signs Still Lies Quiet Truth Strangers and Fools That was Now Thin End of the Wedge Things that Glisten This Could be a Place of Historical Significance Uncategorized volvelle We are the ICI We Did This All While You Were Watching TV Who Decides










