The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and
Visual AIDS
Present
AIDS/ART/WORK
Friday, May 30th, 2008
9:30 AM-5:00 PM
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34 and 35 Street)
New York, NY 10016
Rooms 9206/9207
This one-day conference will explore the pasts,
presents, and futures of AIDS art, AIDS activism, and
AIDS prevention, and the connections between them. In
a series of panels and a culminating roundtable,
AIDS/Art/Work will look at the often productive,
sometimes uneasy relationships between art inspired by
AIDS and HIV/AIDS prevention, focusing on the
following concerns:
1. An AIDS Art Movement?
How is AIDS art and AIDS activism historicized and how
has the process of archiving both the activism and the
cultural production changed it? What are the processes
and purposes of documenting what is essentially
ephemeral from an art historical perspective or from
the perspective of the history of social movements? As
grassroots responses became institutionalized what
happened to the art? Is the institution (i.e. the
museum, the university, the archive) the new movement?
Robert Atkins
Alexandra Juhasz
David Roman
2. Looking at current contemporary art
Can AIDS activism and âAIDS artâ? be part of a
legacy for younger, queer artists? What changes when
the work is brought from the street into the
classroom? How do younger artists and art historians
reference AIDS art in work that is politicized around
the pandemic now? What is the relationship between so
called avant-garde or conceptual art and
representational art within an âAIDS artâ?
framework? Can we think of "utility" in ways that art
isn't usually called upon to produce?
Richard Sawdon-Smith
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Derek Jackson
Jean Carlomusto
3. Collaborations â problems and possibilities
What is the history and efficacy or need from
HIV-prevention work? How have artists or how can
artists work to create useful or effective campaigns?
How should these collaborations be fostered? How do we
define effectiveness in prevention? Has cultural
production changed post-HAART? What threats remain
and what work needs to be done?
Paul Sendziuk
Julie Davids
Patrick âPatoâ? Hebert
David Gere
4. Roundtable
An opportunity to review the dayâs discussions and
solicit meaningful responses from the audience. In
addition, conference themes may be addressed
including:
How did AIDS change the visual art?
What role can artists play in health promotion and
HIV/AIDS prevention?
What is AIDS art now? What does it look like
Marilyn Martin
Jim Hubbard
Edwin Ramoran
Ivan Monforte
Seats and lunches are limited so please register at
www.clags.org before May 22, 2008.
Academics, professionals: $30; students or unemployed
$20.
For more information, contact Naveed Alam at
clags@??? or (212) 817-1955.
Seminars in the City
QUEER MIGRATIONS
Facilitator: Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University
LGBT Community Center
Room 101
208 West 13th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
(212) 620-7310
DATES: 6/2, 7/7, 8/4 (first Monday of the month,
June-August)
6-8 PM
QUEER MIGRATIONS
Migration has been crucial to the formation and
fostering of many queer communities in the United
States; however, population movement has only recently
come into prominence in queer studies in this country
and internationally. This series of seminars will
introduce the participants to this dynamic field of
scholarship through a discussion of case studies from
the past and present. Our readings will include essays
by John DâEmilio, Eithne Lubheid, Adi Kuntsman, Kath
Weston, Susana Peña and others as well as the
illustrated autobiography/graphic testimonial
Sexilio/Sexile by Jaime Cortez. Our main objective is
to understand the importance and interaction of
sexuality with traditional as well as emerging themes
such as ethnic/racial assimilation, transnationalism,
and homeland politics.
The free reading group will meet at the LGBT Community
Center, 208 West 13th Street, in room 101 from 6 to 8
PM on the first Monday of each month from June to
August. To RSVP and obtain a course reading packet
contact CLAGS by phone (212-817-1955) or by email
(clags@???). CLAGS strives to make all of its
events accessible to our members. ASL interpretation
can be provided for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or
more working days prior to the event. If you have
other accessibility needs, please contact the CLAGS
office, with a relay operator when necessary. For
more information, visit our website,
www.clags.org.
FREE COURSE PACKETS NOW AVAILABLE IN OUR OFFICE
(Graduate Center, Room 7115) PLEASE CALL BEFORE
COMING. 212-817-1955
Seminars in the City is supported by the New York
Council for the Humanities.
AWARDS
The June 1st deadline approaching for three annual
CLAGS Awards:
Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies given to
the best book or article to appear in transgender
studies this year (from May 2007-June 2008). Award:
$1,000 Deadline: June1
Undergraduate & Graduate Student Paper Awards awarded
to the best papers written in a CUNY or SUNY class on
any topic related to LGBTQ experiences; undergraduate
papers should be 12-20 page essays, well thought-out,
and fully realized; graduate papers should be between
15 and 50 pages and of publishable quality. Award: 2
awards (undergraduate and graduate) each in the amount
of $250 Deadline: June 1
Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize awarded
to the best dissertation (defended within 2007-2008)
in LGBTQ Studies by a PhD candidate within the CUNY
system. Award: $1,000 Deadline: June 1
Please see our website
www.clags.org for more detailed
information.
The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY at 34th Street. All events in the
Graduate Center are wheelchair accessible. Please
contact the security office at the Graduate Center
(212-817-7777) for further details.
CLAGS is committed to accessibility for all
participants at our events, so we have a SCENT-FREE
policy. ASL interpretation can be provided for any
CLAGS event if requested 10 or more working days prior
to the event. If you have other accessibility needs,
please contact the CLAGS office, with a relay operator
when necessary, at (212) 817-1955 or email us at
clags@???. For more information, visit our
website,
www.clags.org.
