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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: Ephemera Kabinett
Mourning Pins
Matchbox-sized case of black-tipped mourning pins made in Germany for the American and English markets sometime during the nineteenth or early twentieth century. These pins were used to attach veils during periods of mourning. They are silent survivors of the … Continue reading
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
Ad seeking volunteers to test HIV Vaccine
An ad found in a Seattle ‘give-away’ journal from the late 1990s. To our eyes, the visuals seemed bold and adventurous, perhaps a bit too bold in light of what the ad was trying to accomplish: finding volunteers to test … Continue reading
HIV/AIDS Programs that could have been funded instead of Ken Starr
A postcard printed by Visual AIDS in the height of the Ken Starr investigation into President Clinton’s sexual antics. It highlights the choices our leaders make and underlines the irony of Starr’s efforts. His crusade fell under the same banner … 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
Volvelle With Condom Comebacks
AIDS education has taken many forms including this volvelle that offers “comebacks” for sex partners who refused to wear condoms.
AIDS Postcard: Ambition not Compassion will cure AIDS
For most of the 1990s, patrons to bars and restaurants would find free ‘go-cards’ in a rack by the restroom. For the most part these cards announced products and fashion trends but once in a while you came across a … Continue reading
