AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 33Kaitlin SanzoneQueer Memory Practices - David Wojnarowiczo “bury me at the white house”o wants to gain attention to the AIDS community o protestor and AIDS activist- Silence=Deatho 1981, first cases of AIDS and very concentrated in gay community in the beginning o exponential increase of people passing away with AIDS related illnesseso 1987, government stopped money going to AIDS research - AIDS in Arts, Activism, and Archives o Using advertisement to get message of dangers of AIDS acrosso Create an effective logo (silence=death on a pin)- Memory and the Archiveo Gives a memory a homeo Memory tied to objectso Cataloguing as a memory practice o Proof of existence, of importance to history o What is left out of the archive? Why?- Memory and Oral History o “Oral sources tell us not just what people did, but what they wanted to do, what they believed they were doing, and what they now think they did.” o Stonewall Inn-1969 In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a group of gay customers at a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn, who had grown angry at the harassment by police, took a stand and a riot broke out. How is Stonewall remembered?- Lots of transwomen at Stonewall - Every year around June 28, 1969, there are gay pride celebrations to remember Stonewall and celebrate gays o Act Up Oral History Project The Living Archive 2 hour interview about AIDS How will this project make a difference?- Art instillation and performance make the oral history come into everyday life- What this project did was they had candles all around the room, and eachcandle had a picture of the man or women affected by AIDS. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Learning about AIDS history in an interactive way Act Up interviews have recently been combined into one giant documentary - How does video change memory?o Intense mediumo Gets exposure to wide range of people in short amounts of time How is Memory Transmitted?- Memorials and monuments- Storytelling- Objects and traces- Rememory- resurfacing past events o West Village Geography Stonewall The Piers St. Vincent Hospital - Catholic hospital for the poor in NY Early 80s, during AIDS deaths, the St. Vincent Hospital created an AIDS unite to try to
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