VIVONO.
ARTE E AFFETTI, HIV-AIDS IN ITALIA. 1982-1996
VA, Curated by Michele Bertolino
VIVONO. Art and Feelings, HIV-AIDS in Italy. 1982–1996 is an editorial project consisting of a Reader, which collects the research and texts, and a visual Archive: including health records, artists’ testimonies, articles, and part of the archival material featured in the exhibition. Composed of the voices, the images, and the lived experiences of those who shared their stories and entrusted their knowledge: it’s a collective undertaking, a first attempt—partial and unfinished—to trace the history of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in Italy through the artworks created in the country at that time. The exhibition and this publication are the outcome of long conversations, sudden turns and unforeseen divergences. These are not spaces of reconciliation, for the times of HIV-AIDS continue to unfold unevenly, shifting across latitudes.
In the fifteen years between 1982 and 1996, the country changed, shedding its skin: from politics lived on the body, which left the marks of police batons wielded in the squares reminiscent of the 1970s, to apparent disengagement that resulted in party nomenclature, the end of ideologies, and ‘political corruption deeply rooted in society’. The HIV-AIDS epidemic in Italy signaled this shift and complicated the picture: it revealed a politics played out in bodies, in the exchange of glances that spoke of love as a space for affirmation and recognition, above all collective and mutual—like when we stand on the shoulders of those we love to see a new horizon.
Michele Bertolino
Contributors: Michele Bertolino, Valeria Calvino, Daniele Calzavara, Sandra Cane, Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Giulia Sbaffi, Luca Scarlini, Luca Starita, Giulia Zompa.
The text gathers poems and original writings by Luciano Bartolini, Dario Bellezza, Massimiliano Chiamenti, Nino Gennaro, La Nina, Ottavio Mai, Marco Sanna, Giovanni Testori, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and Bruno Zanichelli.
The project has been supported by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci.
Reader
12x19 cm
416 pag
first edition
1000 copies
Archive
21x29,7 cm
376 pag
first edition
1000 copies
VIVONO.
ARTE E AFFETTI, HIV-AIDS IN ITALIA. 1982-1996
Michele Bertolino
VIVONO. Art and Feelings, HIV-AIDS in Italy. 1982–1996 is an editorial project consisting of a Reader, which collects the research and texts, and a visual Archive: including health records, artists’ testimonies, articles, and part of the archival material featured in the exhibition. Composed of the voices, the images, and the lived experiences of those who shared their stories and entrusted their knowledge: it’s a collective undertaking, a first attempt—partial and unfinished—to trace the history of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in Italy through the artworks created in the country at that time. The exhibition and this publication are the outcome of long conversations, sudden turns and unforeseen divergences. These are not spaces of reconciliation, for the times of HIV-AIDS continue to unfold unevenly, shifting across latitudes.g
In the fifteen years between 1982 and 1996, the country changed, shedding its skin: from politics lived on the body, which left the marks of police batons wielded in the squares reminiscent of the 1970s, to apparent disengagement that resulted in party nomenclature, the end of ideologies, and ‘political corruption deeply rooted in society’. The HIV-AIDS epidemic in Italy signaled this shift and complicated the picture: it revealed a politics played out in bodies, in the exchange of glances that spoke of love as a space for affirmation and recognition, above all collective and mutual—like when we stand on the shoulders of those we love to see a new horizon.
Michele Bertolino
Contributors: Michele Bertolino, Valeria Calvino, Daniele Calzavara, Sandra Cane, Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Giulia Sbaffi, Luca Scarlini, Luca Starita, Giulia Zompa.
The text gathers poems and original writings by Luciano Bartolini, Dario Bellezza, Massimiliano Chiamenti, Nino Gennaro, La Nina, Ottavio Mai, Marco Sanna, Giovanni Testori, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and Bruno Zanichelli.
The project has been supported by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci.
Reader
12x19 cm
416 pag
first edition
1000 copies
Archive
21x29,7 cm
376 pag
first edition
1000 copies
