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Interviewee:

Ault, Julie, 1957-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore, 1979-  Search this

Subject:

Ashford, Doug  Search this

Alderfer, Hannah  Search this

Alexander, Vikky  Search this

Beck, Martin  Search this

Blake, Nayland  Search this

Brennan, Patrick  Search this

Evans, Steven, (Curator)  Search this

Garrels, Gary  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix  Search this

Hawkins, Yolanda  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

Klein, Jochen  Search this

Lindell, John  Search this

Locks, Sabrina  Search this

Maharaj, Sarat (Sarat Chandra)  Search this

McCarty, Marlene  Search this

McLaughlin, Mundy  Search this

Meyer, Richard  Search this

Miller-Keller, Andrea  Search this

Moffett, Donald  Search this

Nelson, Marybeth  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Pasternak, Anne  Search this

Phillips, Lisa  Search this

Ramspacher, Karen  Search this

Rinder, Lawrence  Search this

Rollins, Tim  Search this

Sandqvist, Gertrud  Search this

Serrano, Andres  Search this

Staniszewski, Mary Anne  Search this

Szypula, Peter  Search this

Tucker, Marcia  Search this

Wagner, Frank  Search this

Wright, Charles  Search this

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

National Endowment for the Arts  Search this

Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

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

Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Julie Ault, 2017 November 14-16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Art -- Political aspects  Search this

History -- Philosophy  Search this

Oral history  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17523

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)391129

AAA_collcode_ault17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_391129

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

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, 2017 December 16-17. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Activism  Search this

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease)  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

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Theme:

Latino and Latin American  Search this

African American  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:

Juhasz, Alexandra, 1964-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore, 1979-  Search this

Subject:

Carlomusto, Jean  Search this

Cato, Kenrick  Search this

Cunningham, Megan  Search this

Durand, Yannick  Search this

Dunye, Cheryl  Search this

Edwards, Marcia  Search this

Engebreston, Jon  Search this

Finkelstein, Avram  Search this

Guimento, Joe  Search this

Hasty, Glenda  Search this

Haynes, Todd  Search this

Hebert, Pato  Search this

Hollibaugh, Amber L.  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

Lamb, James Robert  Search this

Lebow, Alisa  Search this

Leonard, Zoe  Search this

Lesjak, Carolyn  Search this

Ludlam, Charles  Search this

Matta, Aida  Search this

Mohammed, Juanita  Search this

Penceal, Sharon  Search this

Prieto, Miguel  Search this

Quinton, Everett  Search this

Schulman, Sarah  Search this

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky  Search this

Spiro, Ellen  Search this

Vasquez-Pacheco, Robert  Search this

Wolf, Maxine  Search this

Swarthmore College  Search this

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

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Alexandra Juhasz, 2017 December 19-21. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

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

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

Feminists  Search this

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

Oral history  Search this

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

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17531

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)391842

AAA_collcode_juhasz17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_391842

Interviewee:

Ault, Julie  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Endowment for the Arts  Search this

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

Alderfer, Hannah  Search this

Alexander, Vikky, 1959-  Search this

Ashford, Doug  Search this

Beck, Martin, 1962-  Search this

Blake, Nayland, 1960-  Search this

Brennan, Patrick  Search this

Evans, Steven, (Curator)  Search this

Garrels, Gary  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Hawkins, Yolanda  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

Klein, Jochen, 1967-1997  Search this

Lindell, John  Search this

Locks, Sabrina  Search this

Maharaj, Sarat (Sarat Chandra), 1952-  Search this

McCarty, Marlene, 1957-  Search this

McLaughlin, Mundy  Search this

Meyer, Richard, 1966-  Search this

Miller-Keller, Andrea  Search this

Moffett, Donald, 1955-  Search this

Nelson, Marybeth  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Pasternak, Anne, 1964-  Search this

Phillips, Lisa, 1954-  Search this

Ramspacher, Karen  Search this

Rinder, Lawrence  Search this

Rollins, Tim, 1955-  Search this

Sandqvist, Gertrud  Search this

Serrano, Andres, 1950-  Search this

Staniszewski, Mary Anne  Search this

Szypula, Peter  Search this

Tucker, Marcia  Search this

Wagner, Frank  Search this

Wright, Charles  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (sound files (6 hr., 3 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

90 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

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

Washington (D.C.) -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 November 14-16

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Julie Ault conducted 2017 November 14 and 16, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at a studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Ault speaks of the nature of memory and giving an oral history; her skepticism of linear narratives; leaving rural Maine for Washington, DC at age 17; her family history; her interest in popular culture and commercial culture as a teenager; disco and nightclubs in Washington and New York in the late 1970's; working a variety of day jobs in New York, including a telephone answering service; meeting Tim Rollins for the first time in Maine; her interest in conversation; her relationship to questions; the formation of Group Material in 1979; her relationship with Andres Serrano; Group Material's collaborative dynamic, and its effect on her personal development; the complexities of trying to write or tell history; the shifting configurations and contexts of Group Material over 17 years of activity; mounting, and thinking critically about, individual exhibitions after Group Material; the first AIDS Timeline in 1989; the ephemerality of the Timeline; book projects as a means of depositing personal memories; her first memories of the AIDS crisis beginning in 1983; Group Material's Democracy and AIDS series at Dia in 1988; investigating the tension between art and activism in the context of HIV/AIDS; Karen Ramspacher's entry and contributions to Group Material; the initial decision to employ the form of a timeline and four arenas of research; different audience relationships and reactions to the Timeline; the collaborative process of creating the Timeline; losing NEA funding after the Timeline, amid the early '90s culture wars; Group Material's second exhibition of AIDS Timeline in 1990; her friendship with Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Group Material's third exhibition of AIDS Timeline in 1991; the Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart exhibition; and an acknowledgement of topics that could not be covered in the interview. Ault also recalls Doug Ashford, Vikky Alexander, Yolanda Hawkins, Mundy McLaughlin, Sarat Maharaj, Gertrud Sandqvist, Marybeth Nelson, Patrick Brennan, Hannah Alderfer, Peter Szypula, Sabrina Locks, Larry Rinder, Richard Meyer, Bill Olander, Marcia Tucker, Gary Garrels, Charles Wright, Frank Wagner, Martin Beck, Nayland Blake, Anne Pasternak, Mary Anne Staniszewski, John Lindell, Tom Kalin, Donald Moffett, Marlene McCarty, Jochen Klein, Lisa Phillips, Andrea Miller-Keller, Steven Evans, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Julie Ault (1957- ) is an artist, writer, and curator 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.

Occupation:

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

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

Political activists  Search this

Topic:

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Art -- Political aspects  Search this

History -- Philosophy  Search this

Oral history  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.ault17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw929509f5d-db8b-454a-b779-1c146a51a0e3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ault17

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) 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

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.vazque17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d4793a67-c24a-413f-a363-63404f465a78

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-vazque17

Interviewee:

Juhasz, Alexandra  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

Swarthmore College  Search this

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

Carlomusto, Jean  Search this

Cato, Kenrick  Search this

Cunningham, Megan  Search this

Dunye, Cheryl  Search this

Durand, Yannick  Search this

Edwards, Marcia  Search this

Engebreston, Jon  Search this

Finkelstein, Avram, 1952-  Search this

Guimento, Joe  Search this

Hasty, Glenda  Search this

Haynes, Todd  Search this

Hebert, Pato  Search this

Hollibaugh, Amber L., 1946-  Search this

Kalin, Tom  Search this

Lamb, James Robert  Search this

Lebow, Alisa  Search this

Leonard, Zoe  Search this

Lesjak, Carolyn, 1963-  Search this

Ludlam, Charles  Search this

Matta, Aida  Search this

Mohammed, Juanita  Search this

Penceal, Sharon  Search this

Prieto, Miguel  Search this

Quinton, Everett  Search this

Schulman, Sarah, 1958-  Search this

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky  Search this

Spiro, Ellen  Search this

Vasquez-Pacheco, Robert  Search this

Wolf, Maxine  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (sound files (5 hr., 56 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

117 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 December 19-21

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Alexandra Juhasz conducted 2017 December 19 and 21, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Juhasz's home in Brooklyn, New York.

Juhasz speaks of her commitment to AIDS activism; her intellectual, bohemian, culturally Jewish upbringing; developing her feminism, political consciousness and activism in high school and college; her relationship with James "Jim" Robert Lamb; moving to New York for graduate school in 1986; the beginning of her AIDS activism and video-making practice in the late '80s; reflecting on her privilege and positionality in her activist work; her commitment to making marginal work; Jim Lamb's role in Video Remains, followed by his death and enduring inspiration for her work; the striking and surprising aspects of participating in an oral history; historical and theoretical underpinnings of video-making as an activist strategy and process; making activist video with the WAVE collective; the stakes, challenges, and costs of marginalized communities fighting for self-representation; making activist video with Swarthmore college students; the artistic milieu of New Queer Cinema; producing The Watermelon Woman and recently re-releasing it; moving to Los Angeles and having a period of silence in AIDS activism; returning to AIDS activism by making Video Remains; her ongoing collaborative writing about AIDS with Theodore Kerr; and her most recent projects. Juhasz also recalls Eve Sedgwick, Joe Guimento, Jon Engebretson, Jean Carlomusto, Tom Kalin, Avram Finkelstein, Amber Hollibaugh, Maxine Wolfe, Miguel Prieto, Robert Vasquez-Pacheco, Charles Ludlam, Everett Quinton, Carolyn Lesjak, Yannick Durand, Juanita Mohammed, Sharon Penceal, Aida Matta, Glenda Hasty, Marcia Edwards, Kenrick Cato, Megan Cunningham, Cheryl Dunye, Zoe Leonard, Pato Hebert, Alisa Lebow, Sarah Schulman, Todd Haynes, Ellen Spiro, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Alexandra Juhasz (1964- ) is an AIDS activist, media maker, and scholar 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:

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

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

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

Feminists  Search this

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

Oral history  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.juhasz17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b760203a-0f29-49d5-940f-e2f590ce2bd2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-juhasz17