Alexandra Juhasz

Theodore Kerr

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses. They establish multiple timelines of the epidemic, offering six foundational periodizations of AIDS culture, tracing how attention to the crisis has waxed and waned from the 1980s to the present. They begin the book with a 1990 educational video produced by a Black health collective, using it to consider organizing intersectionally, theories of videotape, empowerment movements, and memorialization. This video is one of many powerful yet overlooked objects that the pair focus on through conversation to understand HIV across time. Along the way, they share their own artwork, activism, and stories of the epidemic. Their conversations illuminate the vital role personal experience, community, cultural production, and connection play in the creation of AIDS-related knowledge, archives, and social change. Throughout, Juhasz and Kerr invite readers to reflect and find ways to engage in their own AIDS-related culture and conversation.

The Times of AIDS Cultural Production

We Are Having This Conversation Now

David Plunkett

Jordan Arseneault

Che Gossett

Timothy DuWhite

Risa Puleo

Robert Suttle

Barb Cardell

Thandi Harris

Craig Pulsipher

Eric Paulk

Johnnie Kornegay

Alexander McClelland

Cell Count

Rahne Alexander

Kelvin Atmadibrata

Nicholas D'Avella

Adam Barbu

Emily Bass

Carlos Motta

Avram Finkelstein

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT AIDS COULD FILL A MUSEUMCuratorial ethics and the ongoing epidemic in the 21st CenturyWith over 40 contributors from around the world, this issue of On Curating wrestles with "forgetting", "seeing", "collecting" and "making" AIDS related culture in the 21st century, and the growing impulse to historize aspects of early responses to the crisis.Through academic essays, conversations, visual projects, reprints and personal reflections, a reader will be exposed to ideas, theories, images, and advice from artists, academics, activists, curators, writers and others around the ethics and practices of curating AIDS-related culture within the ongoing epidemic.Edited by writer, organizer and educator Theodore (ted) Kerr, WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT AIDS COULD FILL A MUSEUM is an important contribution to the vital conversation about HIV/AIDS-related culture that both centers the role of museums as sites for community, knowledge sharing, inspiration and healing, while also exploring their limits and future possibilities.With contributions byAbdul-Aliy A Muhammad and Louie Ortiz-FonsecaAdam Barbu and John Paul RiccoAlper Turan Avram FinkelsteinCarlos Motta, John Arthur PeetzCatalina ImizcozCharan SinghCharles Stephens with Naina KhannaDr. Manon S. ParryDudu QuintanilhaEdward BellevilleEmily Bass and Yvette RapheaelEmily ColucciGreg ThorpeHeather HolmesJ. Ricky PriceJaime Shearn CoanJean Carlomusto, Hugh Ryan and Alexandra JuhaszJordan ArseneaultKairon Lui and Manuel SolanoKate HallsteadKelvin Atmadibrata and Benji de la PiedraL.N. HafeziLuiza Kempińska, Hubert Zięba, Szymon AdamczakLyndon K. GillMarika CiforMavi Veloso and Nicholas D'AvellaMichael CrumplerMichael McFaddenMichael MiiroNelson SantosRahne AlexanderRenaud Chantraine, Florent Molle, and Sandrine MussoSheldon RaymoreSian CookStamatina GregoryVladimir CajkovacWhat Would an HIV Doula Do?

OnCurating Issue 42: What You Don't Know about AIDS Could Fill a Museum

Theodore Kerr

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