Viral Intimacies
The exhibition VIRAL INTIMACIES brings together artists, activists and scholars to reflect on contemporary conditions of HIV/AIDS, as they are shaped by politics, biomedicine, social locations as well as personal memories, love and archives. The project foregrounds the realities of those who long have been silenced or forgotten in writing the history of HIV/AIDS: trans and cis women, people from the Global South, racialized people, incarcerated people and sex workers. VIRAL INTIMACIES asks how to decolonize the history and present of HIV/AIDS. Eleven audiovisual artworks fill the gaps in the dominant yet incomplete narrative of HIV/AIDS and narrate HIV/AIDS as a fragmented and uneven story. The accompanying public program creates a shared space for in depth conversation, encounters, visibilities and solidarity through film screenings, talks, workshops and performances.
The accompanying catalogue is available for free in English and in a German abbreviated version. Among other things, it gathers descriptions of the exhibited works and additional material in the form of essays and interviews.
nGbK work group: Madi Awadalla, Pascale Espinosa, Elisabeth Krämer, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Max Schnepf