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Interviewee:

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome -- Students  Search this

California Institute of the Arts -- Students  Search this

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

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) -- Students  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-  Search this

Barton, Nancy, (Artist)  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988  Search this

Butler, Cornelia H.  Search this

Carby, Hazel V.  Search this

Collier, Jim  Search this

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.  Search this

Geer, Tommy  Search this

Goldin, Nan, 1953-  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Gray, Todd, 1954-  Search this

Grayson, John, 1943-  Search this

Hemphill, Essex  Search this

Julien, Isaac  Search this

Lord, Catherine, 1949-  Search this

Mapplethorpe, Robert  Search this

Mays, Vickie M.  Search this

O'Dench, Ellen  Search this

O'Meally, Jackie  Search this

O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-  Search this

Riggs, Marlon T.  Search this

Seeley, J.  Search this

Sekula, Allan  Search this

Tate, Greg  Search this

Tilton, Jack  Search this

Watson, Simon  Search this

Wilson, Millie  Search this

Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981  Search this

Extent:

6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (8 hr., 6 min.), digital, wav)

95 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

England -- London -- Description and Travel

Ghana -- Description and Travel

Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Description and Travel

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

Tanzania -- Description and Travel

Date:

2017 March 27-29

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Lyle Ashton Harris, conducted 2017 March 27 and 29, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Harris's studio and home in New York, New York.

Harris speaks of his childhood in the Bronx; his family's influence on his race-consciousness; living in Tanzania for two years as a child and the effects on his understanding of race and sexuality; his grandfather's extensive photographic archive; contact with the South African diaspora through his step-father; attending Wesleyan University; formative experiences in London, Amsterdam, and New York in the mid-1980s; his education and development as a photographer; attending CalArts and encountering West Coast AIDS activism; encountering systemic racism in Los Angeles; close friendships with Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill; exhibitions of his work in New York in the early 1990s; the production of his Ektachrome Archive and his impulse to photograph daily life; his work on the Black Community AIDS Research and Education (Black C.A.R.E.) project in Los Angeles; participating in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program; being diagnosed with HIV and remaining asymptomatic; attending the Dia Black Popular Culture Conference in 1992; photographing and mounting "The Good Life" in 1994 and "The Watering Hole" in 1996; issues of blackness and queerness in his photographic work; his residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2000; moving to Accra, Ghana for seven years in 2005; his pedagogy as an art professor; his thoughts on the lack of voices of color in the Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic Oral History Project and in the larger power structures of the art world; and his hope that his artistic legacy will be evaluated in its proper context. Harris also recalls Jackie and Robert O'Meally, Jay Seeley, Ellen O'Dench, Francesca Woodman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jim Collier, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan Sekula, Hazel Carby, Isaac Julien, Catherine Lord, Millie Wilson, Todd Gray, John Grayson, Tommy Gear, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Barton, Vickie Mays, Connie Butler, Greg Tate, Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, Nan Goldin, Jack Tilton, Simon Watson, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Lyle Ashton Harris (1965- ) is an artist who works in video, photography, and performance in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989- ) is a curator and arts writer and works as 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:

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

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

Video artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Racism  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Artists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

African American art -- African influences  Search this

African American educators  Search this

African American photographers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.harris17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9559d7597-04b4-4644-b6ae-bca2bdb27f88

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-harris17

Interviewee:

Waters, Jack, 1954-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Jack Waters, 2018 February 21-22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

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

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

African American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17547

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)392753

AAA_collcode_waters18

Theme:

African American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_392753

Interviewee:

Waters, Jack  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

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

Extent:

4 Items (sound files (5 hr., 59 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

72 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Date:

2018 February 21-22

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Jack Waters, conducted 2018 February 21 and 22, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at the Visual AIDS office in New York, New York.

Waters speaks of his early exposure to the arts through his family and their frequent visitors and boarders; the beginnings of his political consciousness, race consciousness, sex consciousness, and self-identity during the 1960s; his dance education at the Miquon School in Philadelphia; teaching at Miquon after briefly dancing in California; his dance and choreography education at the Julliard School and the Ailey School; his experience of the Lower East Side in the 1980s; the genesis and development of the Performing On One Leg collective; the start of the AIDS epidemic; collaborations with Gordon Kurtti and Brian Taylor, and their AIDS-related deaths; the importance of art-making and documentary practice during the AIDS epidemic; the beginning and development of his film and video work; collaborating with Peter Cramer on Black and White Study as both film and performance; receiving his HIV-positive diagnosis; the beginning and development of his work as a writer and journalist; his involvement in AIDS activist and queer activist organizations; a formative period in Ibiza during the fall 1983; his films The Male GaYze and Short Memory/No History; changes in queer activism he has observed since the 1980s, and the lack of historical memory about them; his experience of intergenerational queer dialogue; his involvement with Visual AIDS; and his thoughts on the idea of artistic legacy, both generally and in his particular case.

Biographical / Historical:

Jack Waters (1954- ) is a visual artist in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989- ) is a curator and arts writer and works as Programs Director for Visual AIDS in New York, New York.

Related Materials:

The Archives of American Art also holds the papers of First name Last name.

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) and the arts  Search this

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

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.waters18

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93959ab94-2a42-4116-84ce-cd4187eb6cec

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-waters18

Interviewee:

Blake, Nayland, 1960-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

ACT UP San Francisco (Organization)  Search this

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

Extent:

59 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2016 November 25-26

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Nayland Blake, conducted 2016 November 25-26, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Blake's home in Brooklyn, New York.

Blake speaks of growing up in a bi-racial family in New York City; visiting museums, art exhibits and shows, and going to the theatre with their parents; attending Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festivals as a teenager; relating their emerging sexuality to the television shows Batman, The Addams Family, and Star Trek; the decision to attend Bard College; the influence of Times Square Show; co-organizing Bard's first gay and lesbian alliance; attending California Institute of the Arts and the different culture they experienced there; their struggle to make explicitly gay work without it being beefcake; not feeling connected to a gay community in Los Angeles but feeling camaraderie with other artists; their decision to move to San Francisco; first hearing about HIV/AIDS while at CalArts and experiencing the first loss of a friend in San Francisco; the undercurrent of more and more men testing positive in their community; the long two-week wait to receive test results; the generational split within the gay community and how that was squashed by the epidemic; the subjects of mortality and mourning in gay art and how that changed the reception of gay artists; the gay and lesbian shows Extended Sensibilities and Against Nature; the organization of ACT UP San Francisco and subsequent split into ACT UP SF, ACT UP Golden Gate, and ACT UP San Francisco; the "imperiled and heightened physicality" Blake began using in their work; participating in Art Against Aids on the Road; directly addressing the frequency of AIDS deaths in their piece Every 12 Minutes; the social network of caregivers that rallied to support those dying from AIDS through home care and food delivery; curating In A Different Life; the pleasure in curating shows; The Shreber Suite installation pieces; purchasing Wayland Flowers' puppet Madame at auction; being a child of the '60s and believing sex is an expression of one's cultural identity; feeling attacked by the dismissive and oppressive Republican government in the 1980s; the extensive symbolism and meaning in their bunny themed work; the technology boom's affect on the Bay Area and their return to New York City; the show Double Fantasy about their relationship with their partner Philip Horvitz; teaching at International Center for Photography and their work in the kink community; the distance their students have to the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and their identification as an American artist. Blake also recalls Jeff Preiss, Cliff Preiss, William Hohauser, Debra Pierson, Nancy Mitchnick, Jake Grossberg, Robert Kelly, Kathy Acker, Gerry Pearlberg, Kathe Burkhart, Judie Bamber, Catherine Opie, Nancy Barton, Julie Ault, William Olander, Robert Glueck, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, D-L Alvarez, Stephen Evans, Michael Jenkins, Richard Hawkins, Ann Philbin, Rick Jacobsen, Amy Sholder, David Wojnarowicz, Rudy Lemcke, A.A. Bronson, Philip Horvitz, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Nayland Blake (1960-) is a performance artist and installation artist 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.

General:

Originally recorded as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 49 min.

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:

Installations (Art)  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.blake16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97a70d548-59b6-40ed-83e3-54d0fb340c9c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-blake16

Interviewee:

Weston, Frederick, Frederick, 1946-2020  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

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

Extent:

4 Items (sound files (5 hrs., 28 min.), digital, wav)

130 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2016 August 31-September 5

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Frederick Weston, conducted 2016 August 31 and September 5, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Weston's home in New York, N.Y.

Weston speaks of his childhood in Detroit; early understandings of his gender; attending Ferris State University in Michigan; moving to New York in 1973; New York nightclub culture before the AIDS crisis; studying at FIT and working in the fashion industry; beginning to consider himself an artist in the late 1990s after years of collage work in street settings; being diagnosed with HIV in the mid-1990s; imbuing his art with his personal experience; his body of work in photography, installations, and poetry; his health care and regiment since being diagnosed with HIV; evolutions in his personal outlook since being diagnosed; the trajectory of his sex life from adolescence; moving into his current apartment in Chelsea; and reflections on America's racial situation. Weston also recalls Claude Payne, Apollonia, Billy Blair, Stephanie Crawford, Franz Renard Smith, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, Bruce Benderson, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Frederick Weston (1946- ) is a multimedia artist in New York, N.Y. Interviewer Theodore Kerr (1979- ) is a writer and organizer in New York, N.Y.

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) and the arts  Search this

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

Multimedia (Art)  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.weston16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9621d1dde-6c2a-4ea5-a26d-967b128fc504

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-weston16

Interviewee:

Rodney, Sur  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

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

Extent:

2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (5 hr., 50 min.), digital, wav)

83 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2016 July 12 and 15

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Sur Rodney (Sur) conducted 2016 July 12 and 15, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Rodney's studio in New York, New York.

Sur speaks of his cosmopolitan upbringing in Montreal; attending the Montreal Museum School of Art and Design; adopting a "freak" aesthetic; moving to New York in 1976; the confluence of his Canadian, gay, and black identities; helping to establish Gracie Mansion Gallery; contemporary erasure of the impact of AIDS and queerness on the 1980s East Village; caring for HIV-positive friends in the 1980s and 90s; the impact of AIDS on intergenerational exchange in the gay community; the ostracizing of HIV-positive artists in the art world; working to preserve HIV-positive artists's archives before their deaths; developing a more explicit black consciousness in the mid-1990s; public silences around issues of sexuality and drug use in the art world; his body of work with Visual AIDS; the impact of effective medication for AIDS on the art world; his observations on contemporary intersections of AIDS and the art world; and his vision for a world when AIDS is over. Sur also recalls J.A. Holm, Fred Wilson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lorraine O'Grady, David Hammons, Gregg Bordowitz, Al Hansen, Buster Cleveland, Tim Greathouse, Nicolas Moufarrege, Jeffrey Deitch, Michael McDonough, Yasmin Ramirez, Keith Davis, Mysoon Rizk, Andreas Senser, David Wojnarowicz, Gil Rankin, Frank Moore, Nick Debs, AA Bronson, Alex Greenfield, and Hunter Reynolds.

Biographical / Historical:

Sur Rodney (Sur) (1954- ) is a performance artist and arts administrator 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) and the arts  Search this

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.rodney16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99bd537b6-a6be-4b06-9e69-95f097e474fc

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rodney16

Interviewee:

Finkelstein, Avram, 1952-  Search this

Interviewer:

Carr, C.  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Avram Finkelstein, 2016 April 25-May 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

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

Activists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

Artists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17347

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)380480

AAA_collcode_finkel16

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_380480

Interviewee:

Rodney, Sur, 1954-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore, 1979-  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Sur Rodney (Sur), 2016 July 12 and 15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Theme:

African American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17369

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)381361

AAA_collcode_rodney16

Theme:

African American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_381361

Interviewee:

Finkelstein, Avram, 1952-  Search this

Interviewer:

Carr, C.  Search this

Names:

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

Extent:

23 Items (sound files (7 hrs.), digital, wav)

148 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2016 April 25-May 23

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Avram Finkelstein conducted 2016 April 25-May 23, by Cynthia Carr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Finkelstein's home and studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Finkelstein speaks of his childhood on Long Island; attending the School of the Museum of fine Arts in Boston; moving to New York in the late 1970s; losing his first partner, Don Yowell, to AIDS; the genesis and distribution of his many AIDS activist posters; the beginnings and actions of ACT UP and Gran Fury; the context of the 1990s culture wars; the mishandling of HIV/AIDS as a public health issue in the 1980s and 1990s; his personal transformation as a result of living through the AIDS crisis; and his work on Flash Collective. Finkelstein also recalls Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, P.L. DiCorcia, Jorge Socarras, Lou Molette, Richard Goldstein, Larry Kramer, Chris Lione, Simon Doonan, Mark Simpson, Don Moffett, Todd Haynes, Robert Vasquez, Loring McAlpin, Michael Nesline, Tom Kalin, Amy Heard, Mark Harrington, Richard Deagle, Julie Tolentino, Lola Flash, Davod Meieran, Patrick Moore, Maria Maggenti, Sean Strub, Eric Sawyer, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Avram Finkelstein (1952- ) is an artist, writer, and activist in New York, New York. Cynthia Carr (1950- ) is a writer 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) and the arts  Search this

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

Activists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

Artists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.finkel16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cecf516f-a5a3-42f6-ace6-8ffb2ca641c9

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-finkel16

Interviewee:

Hodges, Jim, 1957-  Search this

Interviewer:

Carr, C.  Search this

Names:

Fort Wright College of the Holy Names  Search this

Pratt Institute -- Students  Search this

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

Arning, Bill  Search this

Chatham, Rhys  Search this

Feher, Tony, 1956-  Search this

Fuller, Marnie  Search this

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996  Search this

Hoffman, Nancy, 1944-  Search this

Kaiser, Karen  Search this

McCarty, Lynn  Search this

Montano, Linda, 1942-  Search this

Morris, Bob  Search this

Nechvatal, Joseph  Search this

Nyzio, David, 1958-  Search this

Reynolds, Hunter, 1959-  Search this

Safranek, Doug, 1956-  Search this

Smith, Scott  Search this

Vallenciano, Robert  Search this

Extent:

16 Items (Sound recording: 16 sound files (3 hr., 44 min.), digital, wav)

87 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 March 9-May 25

Scope and Contents:

Oral history interview with Jim Hodges, conducted 2017 March 9 and May 25, by Cynthia Carr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Hodges' studio in Queens, New York.

Hodges speaks of his childhood in Spokane, Washington; exposure to art-making in high school and at Fort Wright College; attending Pratt Institute in 1983; his first New York gallery job in 1984; discovering his sexuality and becoming interested in queer life and history; the early years of the AIDS crisis; taking a studio with the Dannheisser Foundation; his body of work in mixed media; his gallery exhibitions in the late 1980s and early '90s; becoming sober in 1990; and the influence of the AIDS crisis on his artwork and art-making process. Hodges also recalls Karen Kaiser, Scott Smith, Marnie Fuller, Davie Nyzio, Lynn McCarty, Robert Vallenciano, Bob Morris, Linda Montano, Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, Nancy Hoffman, Hunter Reynolds, Tony Feher, Bill Arning, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Doug Safranek, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Jim Hodges (1957- ) is an installation artist in New York, New York. Cynthia Carr (1950- ) is a writer 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

Art -- Exhibitions  Search this

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

Installations (Art)  Search this

Mixed media (Art)  Search this

Artists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Gay artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.hodges17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b9961c06-6188-4bf5-85b8-65197d690c0b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hodges17

Interviewee:

Reynolds, Hunter, 1959-  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore  Search this

Names:

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

Extent:

10 Items (sound files (6 hrs., 1 min.), digital, wav)

87 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2016 August 10-September 7

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Hunter Reynolds, conducted 2016 August 10-September 7, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Fales Library in New York, New York.

Reynolds speaks of his childhood in Minnesota, Florida, and California; early sexual experiences; attending Otis College of Art and Design; moving to New York in 1984 and becoming part of the East Village scene; the beginning of the AIDS crisis and safe sex discourse; his involvement in ACT UP; being diagnosed with HIV and starting ART+ Positive in Los Angeles in 1989; his body of artwork, performances, exhibitions, and activist actions; resonances between AIDS activism of the 1980s and '90s and contemporary activism around the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of identifying as an HIV-positive artist; experimenting with drag and developing his alter ego Patina du Prey; performances with "Memorial Dress," "The Banquet," "Dervish Dress;' "Mummification" performance; living and working in Germany in the 1990s; and his personal struggle with long-term HIV survivorship; his "disaster" series and "Survial AIDS" series; and making his life, past and present, his personal masterpiece. Reynolds also recalls Kathy Burkhart, Susan Silas, Fred Tomaselli, Scott Hill, Leslie Dahlgren, Paula Cooper, Ray Navarro, Mark Kostabi, Bill Dobbs, Dread Scott, Kim Levin, Simon Watson, Maxine Henryson, Herr Vishka, Tony Feher, Jim Hodges, Dylan Nayler, Kathleen White, Krista Naylor, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Hunter Reynolds (1959-2022) was a performance artist and activist in New York, New York. Interviewer 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:

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

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Performance art  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.reynol16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw906242372-a58b-4e05-927a-e5744866442c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-reynol16

Interviewee:

Episalla, Joy, 1957-  Search this

Interviewer:

Carr, C.  Search this

Subject:

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 Joy Episalla, 2016 February 23 and March 17. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16324

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)379658

AAA_collcode_episal16

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_379658

Interviewee:

Bordowitz, Gregg, 1964-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Gregg Bordowitz, 2016 April 10-11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16325

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)379660

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_379660

Interviewee:

Atlas, Charles, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-  Search this

Subject:

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 Charles Atlas, 2016 May 31-June 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Motion picture producers and directors  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17344

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)380477

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_380477

Interviewee:

Athey, Ron, 1961-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

Abdoh, Reza  Search this

Bowery, Leigh  Search this

Carr, C.  Search this

Finley, Karen  Search this

Fudge, Diamanda  Search this

Galás, Diamánda  Search this

Gangitano, Lia  Search this

Jones, Amelia  Search this

Meyerson, Harold  Search this

Murphy, Brian  Search this

Went, Johanna  Search this

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ron Athey, 2016 June 17-18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Performance artists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17358

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)381037

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_381037

Interviewee:

Bleckner, Ross, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-  Search this

Subject:

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

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ross Bleckner, 2016 July 6-8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

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

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17359

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)381038

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_381038

Interviewee:

Yamaoka, Carrie, 1957-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

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 Carrie Yamaoka, 2016 July 26-27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17368

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)381360

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_381360

Interviewee:

Hendricks, Geoffrey, 1931-2018  Search this

Interviewer:

Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-  Search this

Subject:

Rutgers University  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 Geoffrey Hendricks, 2016 August 17-18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

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

Fluxus (Group of artists)  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17376

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)381530

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_381530

Interviewee:

Garrels, Gary, 1957-  Search this

Interviewer:

Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-  Search this

Subject:

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 Gary Garrels, 2016 September 12. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Curators -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17418

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)382889

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_382889

Interviewee:

Reynolds, Hunter, 1959-2022  Search this

Interviewer:

Kerr, Theodore, 1979-  Search this

Subject:

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 Hunter Reynolds, 2016 August 10-September 7. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Performance art  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17412

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)382891

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Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_382891