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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
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Category Archives: DWA
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)
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
AIDS ‘VISA’ Broadside
A beautifully simple but powerful broadside by artist and designer Harvey Weiss that was distributed by Visual AIDS for their 1998 Day Without Art. By co-opting this symbol of corporate might the artist hoped to address the economic/corporate determinism of … Continue reading
Every Ten Minutes Cassette by Robert Farber
A project by Robert Farber for Day Without Art in 1992. There was no sound on the tape except for a gong that rang every ten minutes – the rate of AIDS deaths in the United States at that time. … Continue reading
Plague in Virgil’s “Georgics” Pamphlet
A program for an exhibition organized by Daniel Cornell at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1995 to coincide with the Day Without Art on December 1, World AIDS Day. Today, Visual AIDS prefers to emphasize the people, especially artists, who … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: AIDS Demographics
Crimp, Douglas and Rolston, Adam AIDS Demographics (1990) LAST LINE: “Now we must teach him, and Woody Myers, that they owe us much more.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-14-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Stitching A Revolution
Jones, Cleves Stitching A Revolution (2000) LAST LINE: “Please don’t make us come back.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-10-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Melancholia and Moralism
Crimp, Douglas Melancholia and Moralism (2002) FIRST LINE: “I assert to begin that ‘disease’ does not exist.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-08-11)
