LIBRARY SHELF: Stitching A Revolution

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Jones, Cleves Stitching A Revolution (2000) ICI Shelf: AIDS First Line: “Thousands of people stand on a grid of canvas walkways.” Last Line: “Please don’t make us come back.” ICI History: Last line, Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-10-11); First Line, Today at the ICI-Twitter … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Stitching A Revolution

LIBRARY SHELF: Melancholia and Moralism

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Crimp, Douglas Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002) FIRST LINE: “I assert to begin that ‘disease’ does not exist.” LAST LINE: “How do we make what we know knowable to legions?” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: First Line: Today at the … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Melancholia and Moralism

LIBRARY SHELF: Tongues of Flame

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Wojnarowicz, David Tongues of Flame ICI Shelf: AIDS FIRST LINE: “It’s so simple: the man without the eye against a receding wall, the subtle deterioration of weather, of shading, of images, engraved in flaking walls.” LAST LINE: “…bottom line, with enough gestures we can deafen the … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Tongues of Flame

LIBRARY SHELF: Art Against AIDS

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Hanstein, Henrik Rolf; Art Against AIDS: Auktion zugunsten der Nationalen Aid-Stiftung (1988) ICI Shelf: AIDS First Line: “Der vorliegende Katalog ist das Dokument einer beispielhaften Initiative, die zeigt, wie das Zusammenwirken engagierter Menschen zu einem richtungweisenden Ergebnis führt.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Art Against AIDS