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Témoigner en corps du SIDA
Testify into the body of aids

Author(s): Romain Thomazeau
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: body; testimony; intimacy; AIDS; crisis;

Summary/Abstract: Touch, understood AIDS through the body is to figure out it as a biological space and through which the virus grows. It’s also admit the graphic qualities of exposure or testimony of the patient’s body, which in the AIDS crisis acquires a special status. It takes the body as a sensory memorial bridge between self and environment. Testify of the disease through art is to speak about ourselves, our sexuality, our loves, our friends, our environment, our practices. It is make penetrate our self in the viewer, in our emotions. But the disease also affects the body as in the representations as working tool, AIDS is therefore an object by which the artist demonstrates a physical condition whose symptoms are the tangible evidence of a pathological narration. The body-diseased tells a story, it is important for us to understand.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 129-140
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French
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