Category Archives: AIDS

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 that has shaped global culture for almost 30 years now.

LIBRARY SHELF: Blue

Jarman, Derek Blue: Das Buch zum Film (1993) LAST LINE: “I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.” ICI SHELF: London ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-03-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: Bodies of Resistance

Visual AIDS Bodies of Resistance (2000) LAST LINE: “…we are faced with an experience of AIDS which can only be called ongoing.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-01-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: Share Your Vision

Visual AIDS Share Your Vision (2000) LAST LINE: “Maybe here and now, or in the future, you too will also let the work speak first.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-29-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: The Cholera Years

Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years (1962) FIRST LINE: “It had been an unhealthy winter and the dry spring promised a sickly summer.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-27-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: Muses from Chaos and Ash

Vaucher, Andrea R. Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art (1993) FIRST LINE: “I was driving up to Woodstock to visit my friend Kenny O’Brien.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-25-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: A Leap In the Dark

Klusacek, Allan and Morrison, Ken A Leap in the Dark (1992) FIRST LINE: “AIDS is a focal point for many of the social ills that plague modern society…” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-23-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: The Plague

Camus, Albert The Plague (1948) LAST LINE: “…for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the … Continue reading

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LIBRARY SHELF: Close to the Knives

Wojnarowicz, David Close to the Knives: A memoir of Disintegration (1991) LAST LINE: “Smell the flowers while you can.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-18-11)  

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LIBRARY SHELF: Tangled Memories

Sturken, Marita Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997) LAST LINE: “They stand at the juncture of memory and history, tugging by their very presence the boundaries of each.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI … Continue reading

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Original AIDS Ribbon

The original red ribbon created in 1991 to recognize people living with HIV and AIDS along with their caretakers.  It was created by the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in a collaborative gesture although sometimes Frank Moore, a painter who subsequently … Continue reading

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