Begrüßung: Prof. Dr. Peter-Klaus Schuster (Vorstand Stiftung Brandenburger Tor), Prof. Dr. Eva Ehninger (Professorin für Kustgeschichte der Moderne Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Vortrag: Prof. Dr. Jonathan D. Katz (University of Pennsylvania)
Musikalische Begleitung: Emily Guerry, Björn Kunze, Johanna Weihrauch und Florian Wild (Klarinettenquartett Berlin)
How AIDS Changed American Art
In place of AIDS' familiar role as a tragic tangent to the development of American culture - as a literal dead end - Katz argues that AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American art since the 1980’s. Of course, we have repressed AIDS’ role in the making of American culture in keeping with our longstanding repression of AIDS in general. But repression, as we know from psychoanalysis, is the sign of great power. Katz illustrates how AIDS has fundamentally shifted the American cultural landscape, exploring not only the manifold losses AIDS has inflicted, but also how, in response to both AIDS and the prejudice it engendered, a plague has rewritten both the form and content of American art.
There are two possible illustrative images. The first is the more subtle and complicated, though absolutely on target for the theme of the talk.
5 окт 2024
