Do Not Tape Over: AIDS Activist Videos in the United Kingdom
This article presents a selection of AIDS activist videos to explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on activist methods and artistic production in Britain in the 1980s and early 1990s. It attempts to redress a gap in the history of moving-image production and distribution in the United Kingdom by tho...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2025-07-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/27/aids-activist-videos/ |
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| Summary: | This article presents a selection of AIDS activist videos to explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on activist methods and artistic production in Britain in the 1980s and early 1990s. It attempts to redress a gap in the history of moving-image production and distribution in the United Kingdom by those who were impacted by HIV/AIDS. It shows that AIDS activist videos employed a multiplicity of approaches to production and distribution, each responding to a specific context or subject position. It explores how such films were made in the context of failures of representation, and an absence of self-expression, in mainstream media; and identifies key differences between AIDS activist production and distribution in the United Kingdom and the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 2058-5462 |