"A Global Pandemic? Problematizing UniversalStrategies Through Localized Experiences of HIV/AIDS"

CEREV is excited to announce that former CEREV Postdoctoral Fellow Jenny Doubt and student affiliate from Concordia’s Department of History Ian Bradley-Perrin will be mounting their project A Global Pandemic? Problematizing UniversalStrategies Through Localized Experiences of HIV/AIDS in our Exhibition Lab from February 12-13, 2015.

Please join us for a casual guided tour of Jenny Doubt and Ian Bradley-Perrin’s exhibition project “A Global Pandemic? Problematizing Universal Strategies Through Localized Experiences of HIV/AIDS” with Q&A session in CEREV’s Exhibition Lab from 5 – 7 PM on February 12, 2015.

Vernissage, Guided Tour & Q&A
February 12, 2015
5 – 7 PM
CEREV Exhibition Lab
JW McConnell Library Building, LB-671.10

Come see the product of much hard work on the part of former CEREV Postdoctoral Fellow Jenny Doubt and our student affiliate Ian Bradley-Perrin. Their experimentation in curation, “A Global Pandemic? Problematizing Universal Strategies Through Localized Experiences of HIV/AIDS” will be open to the public for drop-in visits at CEREV’s Exhibition Lab on February 13, 2015 from 12 – 5 PM.

A Global Pandemic? seeks to examine the experience of HIV/AIDS in significantly different localized contexts in Canada, America, South Africa, Brazil and Ukraine, thus revealing one of the limitations of universalized HIV/AIDS strategies focused on ‘universal access to antiretroviral therapy’, namely their failure to consider the significant nuances introduced by gender, age, class and urban/rural context that ultimately differentiate national and regional experiences of HIV and AIDS.

While A Global Pandemic? takes as its historical basis the violences wrought as a result of the lack of publicly accessible antiretroviral medication in South Africa and the United States, it also seeks to challenge universalized HIV/AIDS strategies that have emerged from that conflict by challenging the increasingly imposed notion that ‘AIDS is over’ or ‘treatable’ on a global scale.

Drawing on Bradley-Perrin’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS in the North American context (he is completing his Master’s degree on the history and impact of class relations within AIDS activist organizations and their effects on HIV-related policy and the law) and Doubt’s knowledge of the South African context of the epidemic, this project developed as a result of their desire to examine the extent to which these two contexts can meet productively in an exhibition space. The visualization of the disparate realities of the HIV pandemic is necessary to conceptualize, not a world without AIDS but one in which the needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS are prioritized and met in all their diversity.

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