Curator Stephen Vider and artists featured in AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism Bill Bytsura, Wanda Hernandez-Parks, Susan Kuklin, Hunter Reynolds, Frederick Weston spoke about their work in the exhibition, in conversation with Visual AIDS Programs Director Alex Fialho.
AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism examined how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present. From the earliest diagnoses, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spurred New Yorkers to create new forms of social support, identify new legal battles, and explore new artistic terrain. The exhibition placed paintings, photography, and film alongside archival objects from activist groups and support programs to uncover the private stories of HIV and AIDS and reconsider caretaking, community building, and making art as acts of resistance.
