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The Body, the Host: A Symposium on HIV/AIDS, Christianity, and Art

Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Body, the Host: A Symposium on HIV/AIDS, Christianity, and Art

Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

This symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity, brings together artists, activists, and historians who expand conventional narratives around Christianity, HIV/AIDS, and their overlaps.

Friday, November 15

5:30-6:30 Keynote Address: This Is the Day the Lord Has Made; Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee

6:30-7:30 Reception

Saturday, November 16

  • 10:30-11:00 Welcome and introductions
  • 11:00-11:30 Warhol’s Confession: Love, Faith, AIDS; Jessica Beck
  • 11:30-12:00 A list of the present; Creighton Baxter
  • Break
  • 1:30-2:00 Performance: Rising Again: Re-imagining “Stop the Church;” Brendan Fernandes and the Oberlin Dance Department
  • 2:00-2:30 From Oberlin to ACT UP: My Path to Activism; Peter Staley
  • 2:30-3:00 Concluding discussion
  • 3:00-4:00 Reception

Free HIV Testing on Saturday from 10–5 provided by the Central Outreach Wellness Center’s mobile testing van, no appointment necessary.

Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee is the executive director of La Gender Inc. She is a national leader in trans and HIV/AIDS advocacy and the co-founder of the trans ministry at her church.

Jessica Beck is a director at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. She was a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum for eight years and is among the foremost scholars of Warhol’s life and work.

Creighton Baxter is a New York-based artist whose work in performance and drawing addresses temporality and remembrance. Baxter’s work is in the Allen’s permanent collection.

Brendan Fernandes is a dancer, visual artist, and professor at Northwestern University. His choreographic projects in museums confront issues of race, queerness, migration, and protest.

Peter Staley (OC 1983), a longtime ACT UP member, is the founder of TAG (the Treatment Action Group) and AIDSmeds.com and author of Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.

This event takes place at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. It is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored with the generous support of the Art History Department’s Baldwin Lectures Endowment, with additional support from the Dance Department, the Office of Alumni Engagement, the Office of Gender & Attraction Initiatives (GAI), and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. The Allen is also grateful for generous support from the John H. '29 and Marjorie Fox '29 Wieland Current-Use AMAM Support Fund.

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Access Statement:
This event will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. The lecture space is wheelchair accessible, with moveable seating, and near wheelchair-accessible restrooms. Restrooms are gender-specific; visitors are invited to use the restroom of their preference. Listening devices will be available for use during the presentation, but ASL interpretation is currently not scheduled for this event. Most talks will be recorded and available with closed captions on the museum’s Vimeo page after the event. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.

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