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10:00 am

How AIDS Changed American Art–An Illustrated Lecture by Jonathan Katz with performance by avery r. young

December 3, 2016 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Alphawood Gallery, 2401 N. Halsted Street, Suite 210
Chicago, IL 60614 United States

Widely considered merely a tragic tangent within US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American art since the 1980's. Of course, we have repressed AIDS’ role in the making of our culture in keeping with our longstanding repression of AIDS in general. But repression, as we know

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11:30 am

Disruption/Repression: How AIDS Changed America Panel with performance by Joseph Ravens

December 3, 2016 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Alphawood Gallery, 2401 N. Halsted Street, Suite 210
Chicago, IL 60614 United States

Medicine, politics, art, activism, sex, culture—everything in the US changed after the first reports of a mysterious illness in 1981. In the face of intense fear, repression, and prejudice, brave activists took to the streets in protest while enduring great loss; their goal was to create change, and ultimately, find compassion for the suffering and

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