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Interviewee:

Crimp, Douglas  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

ACT UP (Organization)  Search this

Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Gay Activists Alliance  Search this

Rutgers University. Institute of Jazz Studies -- Faculty  Search this

Tulane University -- Students  Search this

University of Rochester -- Faculty  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Baker, Elizabeth C., 1934-  Search this

Belaygue, Christian  Search this

Bordowitz, Gregg  Search this

Cooke, Lynne  Search this

Copjec, Joan  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Elovich, Richard  Search this

Jonas, Joan, 1936-  Search this

Kohlmeyer, Ida, 1912-1997  Search this

Krauss, Rosalind E.  Search this

Lemann, Bernard, 1905-  Search this

Leonard, Zoe  Search this

Michelson, Annette  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Owens, Craig  Search this

Robinson, Marilynne  Search this

Santos, René, 1954-1986  Search this

Torm, Fernando  Search this

Waldman, Diane  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Wodiczko, Krzysztof  Search this

Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (6 hr., 2 min.), digital, wav)

69 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Germany -- description and travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 January 3-4

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Douglas Crimp, conducted 2017 January 3-4, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Crimp's home in New York, New York.

Crimp speaks of growing up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; his athleticism in water skiing and ice skating; sibling rivalry as a child; seeing art for the first time at the Seattle World Fair; being closeted and conflicted as a young gay man in 1950s Idaho; attending Tulane University in New Orleans and the culture shock he experienced there; his first year in Tulane's rigorous architecture program and ultimately changing his major to art history; the pageantry of Mardi Gras parades and the gay society he explored; writing an undergraduate paper analyzing Marcel Duchamp's "The Large Glass"; deciding to go to New York City; finding his voice as an art critic while beginning his career at Art News and Art International; his extensive analysis of Joan Jonas; attending Firehouse dances sponsored by Gay Activist Alliance and coming into his sexuality; being a patient of esteemed doctor Dr. Dan William; first learning of the AIDS crisis and epidemic through a New York Times article in 1981 describing a gay cancer; receiving an NEA art critic grant and spending a year in Germany from 1985-86; returning to find friends and acquaintances sick with HIV/AIDS or having died from it; the Dia Conversations; his role as editor of October and bringing queerness and AIDS to the forefront; joining ACT UP; the genesis of October's AIDS double issue in 1987-1988 and its success; how the journal issue changed the course of his career and steered him to teach gay studies and further his work with AIDS activism; the inner workings of ACT UP meetings; the sense of community ACT UP provided and the empowerment everyone felt; noting a sense of personal and professional urgency during the crisis; the timeline of his AIDS writings; his reaction to seeing the AIDS quilt for the first time at the March on Washington; writing to a wide, non-academic audience; his 1988 course at Rutgers University on AIDS video; his complex relationships with Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson; the poor coverage of the AIDS epidemic in the media and how it informed his writing; the understanding of the need for safe sex practices and writing "How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic;" teaching courses on AIDS at the University of Rochester and how his teaching interest evolved into queer theory and studies; evaluating Warhol's work with a queer lens; writing about his experience with queer life in New York City in the 1970s to counter the condescending conservative narrative; his current writing projects and interests; experience in demonstrations held by ACT UP; and the tremendous communal support he felt during his seroconversion. Crimp also recalls Marilynne Summers (Robinson), Bernard Lemann, Marimar Benetiz, Ida Kohlmeyer, Lynn Emory, Diane Waldman, Betsy Baker, Lucinda Hawkins, Christian Belaygue, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Rosalind Krauss, Joan Copjec, Gregg Bordowitz, Terri Cafaro, Rene Santos, Craig Owens, Fernando Torm, Bill Olander, Richard Elovich, Daniel Wolfe, Hector Caicedo, Lynne Cooke, and Zoe Leonard.

Biographical / Historical:

Douglas Crimp (1944- 2019) was a professor and art critic in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989- ) is a curator and arts writer who is the Programs Director for Visual AIDS in New York, New York.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

Gay activists  Search this

Gay and lesbian studies  Search this

HIV and AIDS  Search this

Mardi Gras  Search this

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt  Search this

Queer theory  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.crimp17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-crimp17

Interviewee:

Crimp, Douglas, 1944-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

Bordowitz, Gregg  Search this

Baker, Elizabeth C.  Search this

Belaygue, Christian  Search this

Cooke, Lynne  Search this

Copjec, Joan  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel  Search this

Elovich, Richard  Search this

Jonas, Joan  Search this

Kohlmeyer, Ida  Search this

Krauss, Rosalind E.  Search this

Lemann, Bernard  Search this

Leonard, Zoe  Search this

Michelson, Annette  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Owens, Craig  Search this

Robinson, Marilynne  Search this

Santos, René  Search this

Torm, Fernando  Search this

Waldman, Diane  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Wodiczko, Krzysztof  Search this

Wolfe, Daniel  Search this

ACT UP (Organization)  Search this

Gay Activists Alliance  Search this

Rutgers University  Search this

Tulane University  Search this

University of Rochester  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Century 21 Exposition  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Germany -- description and travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) -- Study and teaching  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

Gay activists  Search this

Gay and lesbian studies  Search this

HIV and AIDS  Search this

Mardi Gras  Search this

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt  Search this

Queer theory  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17416

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)384973

AAA_collcode_crimp17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_384973

Interviewee:

Vázquez-Pacheco, Robert, 1956-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore, 1979-  Search this

Subject:

Ayala, George  Search this

Bordowitz, Gregg  Search this

Callen, Michael  Search this

Elovich, Richard  Search this

Finkelstein, Avram  Search this

Foreman, Matt  Search this

France, David  Search this

Garcia, Robert  Search this

George, Carl  Search this

Guzmán, Manolo  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

King, Charles Bird  Search this

Kirschenbaum, David A.  Search this

Kramer, Larry  Search this

Levine, Deb  Search this

McAlpin, Loring  Search this

McCarty, Marlene  Search this

Metroka, Craig  Search this

Moffett, Donald  Search this

Rice-González, Charles  Search this

Russo, Vito  Search this

Simpson, Mark  Search this

Staley, Peter  Search this

Walsh, Joey  Search this

ACT UP (Organization)  Search this

Gay Switchboard (Berkeley, Calif.)  Search this

Gran Fury (Artists' collective)  Search this

National Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization  Search this

Other Countries, Inc.  Search this

People with AIDS Coalition  Search this

State University College (Oswego, N.Y.)  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Topic:

Activism  Search this

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and art  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17530

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)391841

AAA_collcode_vazque17

Theme:

Latino and Latin American

African American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_391841

Interviewee:

Vázquez-Pacheco, Robert, 1956-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

ACT UP (Organization)  Search this

Gay Switchboard (Berkeley, Calif.)  Search this

Gran Fury (Artists' collective)  Search this

National Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization  Search this

Other Countries, Inc.  Search this

People with AIDS Coalition  Search this

State University College (Oswego, N.Y.) -- Students  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Ayala, George  Search this

Bordowitz, Gregg  Search this

Callen, Michael, 1955-1993  Search this

Elovich, Richard  Search this

Finkelstein, Avram, 1952-  Search this

Foreman, Matt  Search this

France, David, 1959-  Search this

Garcia, Robert, 1933-2017  Search this

George, Carl  Search this

Guzmán, Manolo  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862  Search this

Kirschenbaum, David A.  Search this

Kramer, Larry  Search this

Levine, Deb  Search this

McAlpin, Loring, 1960-  Search this

McCarty, Marlene, 1957-  Search this

Metroka, Craig  Search this

Moffett, Donald, 1955-  Search this

Rice-González, Charles  Search this

Russo, Vito  Search this

Simpson, Mark, 1965-  Search this

Staley, Peter  Search this

Walsh, Joey, 1938-  Search this

Extent:

8 Items (sound files (6 hr., 59 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

131 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 December 16-17

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Robert Vázquez-Pacheco conducted 2017 December 16 and 17, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at The New School, in New York, New York.

Vazquez-Pacheco speaks of his childhood in South Bronx housing projects; members and dynamics of his family growing up; experiences and discourses of religion, race, gender, sexuality, reading, and the arts as a child and adolescent; attending SUNY Oswego for one year; an existentially pivotal year in Miami in 1975; returning to New York in 1976, immersing himself in Latino gay culture, and being exposed to white gay culture; living in Hempstead, New York for two years with a boyfriend, and beginning to paint again; working at Chase Manhattan Bank and volunteering for the Gay Switchboard in New York City in the late '70s; the beginning of the AIDS epidemic; caring for his boyfriend, Jeff, who died of AIDS in 1986; the particular experience and effect of HIV on communities of color and low-income communities; mounting societal homophobia during the epidemic; leading Gay Circles, a gay men's consciousness-raising group, in the late '80s; his involvement in ACT UP, and burgeoning political consciousness, after Jeff's death; activism as a creative outlet; working at different times with the People With AIDS health group, the Anti-Violence Project, the Minority AIDS Taskforce, Latino Gay Men of New York, Minority AIDS Coalition in Philadelphia, and LLEGO in Washington; AIDS activism's failure to think intersectionally and build coalitions; his involvement in Gran Fury; becoming a more prolific writer, and getting involved with Other Countries, in the early '90s; Gran Fury's 2011 retrospective; the need for racial diversity and representation in activism and the art world; white flight from AIDS activism following the arrival of protease inhibitors; personal frustrations with the current AIDS activism discourse and nonprofit organizational complex, and the general cultural conversation about HIV/AIDS; contrasting representations of AIDS activism in How to Survive a Plague and BPM; and the essential role of art in AIDS activism. Vazquez-Pacheco also recalls Mark Simpson, Craig Metroka, David Kirschenbaum, Maxine Wolfe, Avram Finkelstein, Deb Levine, Charles King, Robert Garcia, Ortez Alderson, Derek Hodel, Gregg Bordowitz, Michael Callen, Carl George, Joey Walsh, Matt Foreman, Vito Russo, Larry Kramer, Tom Kalin, Marlene McCarty, Charles Rice-González, George Ayala, Essex Hemphill, Manolo Guzmán, Donald Moffett, Cladd Stevens, Richard Elovich, Loring McAlpin, Michael Nesline, Peter Staley, David France, Andrew Miller, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Vázquez-Pacheco (1956- ) is a visual artist and writer in New York, New York. Theodore Kerr (1979- ) is a writer and organizer in New York, New York.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Activism  Search this

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and art  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.vazque17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-vazque17