Seeing of course is not just an activity with the eyes, but rather a practice of vision, imagination and—when it comes to HIV/AIDS—negotiating that which has been rendered silent, absent, and erased, be it from history or the gallery. This section places an emphasis on the role of artists in cultural production, and the practice of conversation as means to make issues, people and ideas visible.

Artist Kelvin Atmadibrata in Conversation with Oral Historian Benji de la Piedra
HIV Ambivalence and Game-Playing Influence

Emily Bass and Yvette Raphael
Looking for the Faces of Our Friends

Edward Belleville
Stones and Water Weight: Working Out Past and Future with Mykki Blanco

People with AIDS advisory committee
The Denver Principles

A Conversation Between Szymon Adamczak, Luiza Kempińska, and Hubert Zięba
Poland and AIDS

Theodore (ted) Kerr
From Tactic to Demand: HIV Visibility Within a Culture of Criminalization

Demian DinéYazhi´ + R.I.S.E.
HIV Affects Indigenous Communities

An Exchange to Expand on the PrEP Manifesto between Carlos Motta and John Arthur Peetz
Because PrEP is Not About AIDS

Stamatina Gregory
Shooting Up in the Museum: Intravenous Drug Use in Brian Weil’s The AIDS Photographs

Charan Singh
Among Four Friends: Conversations Before and in a Hospital Waiting Room

A Conversation Between Mavi Veloso and Nicholas D’Avella
Fingerprints, Unfinished