VOICE = SURVIVAL Exhibition Opening
Thursday, June 15, 2017
from 6 to 8pm
Donald Moffett, He Kills Me, 1987. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Aspen. © Donald Moffett. [Image Description: Two images make a left and a right. The image to the left is an orange and black bullseye. The right image is a black and white photograph of Ronald Reagan with the sentence “HE KILLS ME.” written in orange at the bottom. Reagan smiles and wears a black suit jacket, a polka dot tie, and a white shirt.]
VOICE = SURVIVAL, an exhibition curated by Claudia Maria Carrera and Adrian Geraldo Saldaña for Visual AIDS, examined voice as a medium and a metaphor used by artists and activists confronting oppression amid the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. The multidisciplinary exhibition featured work and archival materials by ACT UP, Jordan Arseneault and PosterVirus, yann beauvais, Mykki Blanco and Adinah Dancyger, Chloe Dzubilo, Gran Fury, Andrea Geyer and Sharon Hayes, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vazquez, Shan Kelley, Audre Lorde, Donald Moffett, Pat Parker, Bob Rafsky, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Marlon Riggs, LJ Roberts, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, Vito Russo, Kiki Smith, Ultra-red, Rosa von Praunheim, and David Wojnarowicz. The exhibition was on view from June 15 through August 11, 2017 at The 8th Floor.