Adrian Apollo, Week 2 exhibition plan Source #1

 



Week 2 Plan, Resource 1: United In Anger History Of ACT UP Documentary Initial Notes 

  • “This isnt supposed to be happening to someone your age” (first minute in)

  • 1:30 studies saying AIDS victims should be tattooed 

  • Fear of Raegan adminsitration making internment camps for AIDS victims

  • Larry Kramer speech, half of this room will be dead what are we going to do about it, speech at Gay and Lesbian Center calling for a new AIDS movement, March 10th 1987

  • March 12th 1987, 2 days after, 300 people gather to form ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power 

  •   March 24, 1987, Wall Street ACT Up protest, first demonstration targeting AZT’s $10,000 price tag

  • June 28 1987, Lesbian and Gay Pride March ACT UP’s float responds to threats of quarantining people with AIDs 

  • July 21-24 1987, Memorial SLoan Kettering Hospital, ACT UP stages 96 hour picket demanding expanded drug trials 

  • Eric Sawyer (used ACT UP as outlet for loss of bf who died of AIDS)

  • Gerri Wells (her brother died and she needed an outlet)

  • ACT UP was outlet for those affected by AIDS, victims, caretakers, those who have lost loved ones

  • People with history of activism, organizing, people with no history, blank slates and those with experience

  • Moises Agosto, religious experience, room of people with similar experience and yearning for difference 

  • Jan 15 1988, Just say no to cosmo, ACT Up’s women caucus responds to a life threatening article in Cosmopolitan magazine “WHy Women are not at risk for AIDS”

  • March 24 1988, Wall street, ACT UP celebrates its first anniversary by returning to Wall Street

  • Stop the red tape, AIDS kills women

  • April 29-May 7 1988, National Spring AIDS Actions, 9 days of AIDS activism around the country, each day has its own theme 

  • May 7 1988, On day 9, over 600 protestors demonstrate at the State Capitol in Albany, NY and hear Vito Russo’s historic AIDS speech 

  • October 11 1988, Seize control of the FDA, ACT UP’s first national demonstartion forces the Food and Drug Administration to approve and release drugs faster 

  • Access to drugs, quicker approval process

  • 11:20 Vito Russo speech at FDA

  • Ann Northrop, representatives, local representatives 

  • Action brings change, silence does not

  • Block buses, stop business as usual

  • Shift from defensive ro offensive 

  • People with AIDS should be involved in treatment plans 

  • Drug approval standards changed, not normal consumer relationship 

  • Communication tools, Robyn Hutt, testimony collective, document early activism

  • Document everyday, activist tools, Sandra Elegar 

  • Afflicted population taking charge of epideminc,  Eric Perez

  • Voices From The Front 

  • Rodger PettyJohn, Carmen Royster, Catherine Gund, cameras are extension of ourselves, Diva Tv, police surveillance, arrest of Jim Lyons 

  • VHS copies sent around, ACT UP newsreel, Robert Garcia

  • Undercover police at ACT UP meetings 

  • Aldyn McKean, Anna Blume, Danny Sotomayer, The Invisible Women, Jon Greenburg, the Non Toxics, Lucas Salazar

  • Civil disobedience as a safe tactic for media attention, Amy Bauer, trained for civil disobedience 

  • March 28 1989, Target City Hall, ACT UP demands benefits and housing for People with AIDS 

  • Rodger MacFarlane, Sharon Tamutola, waves of being arrested at protests

  • Lei Chou, meeting with City Hall, incremental accomplishments 

  • Maria Magennti, Douglas Crimp, community, Matt Ebert

  • June 4 1989, Montreal AIDS conference, ACT Up takes over the conference opening, demanding inclusion of people with AIDS

  • September 14 1989, sell wellcome, ACT Up protests at the New York Stock Exchange, insisting traders sell their shares of Burroughs Wellcome, the manufacturer of AZT, September 18 1989, four days later Burrough Wellcome lowers the price of AZt by 20%

  • November 1989, Cardinal O’Connor the archbishop of NY condemns the use of condoms to prevent HIV and Attacks abortion laws, ACT Up plans protest at St Patricks Cathedral

  • December 10 1989 St Patrick Cathedral protest

  • Standing on pews and shouting at Die in made people feel upset because it disrupted prayer, thought silence was more affective

  • Biggest picket demonstration, 7,000 people outside cathedral

  • Gran Fury ACT Up graphics, Patrick Moore, Cathlene McCarty, mainstream advertising look

  • ACT UP posters, got people to come to meetings

  • March 28 1990, ACT UP goes to Albany NY and confronts Gov. Mario Cuomo about the lack of AIDS services

  • April 21-23 1990 National AIDS Activism for Healthcare, ACT UP and NY activists and activists from around the country in Chicago to “Cure the Healthcare System” 

  • May 21 1990, Storm the NIH, ACT UP protests to demand inclusiveness in AIDS Clinical Trial Groups (ACTG) at the National Institutes of Heslth (NIH)

  • Gregg Gonsalves, Jeff Gates, every 12 minutes someone dies of AIDS, airhorn every 12 minutes, Keith Cylar

  • Drug trials for women 

  • Opportunity in act up for social change, use those who had medical privileges before, realizing they are now marginalized in a way, use their anger for the cause

  • March 1989, Changing the definition, ACT UP starts a 4 year campaign against the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to change the definition of AIDS to include diseases specific to women and IV drug users

  • Karen Ramspatcher, marion Banzhaf, Emily Nahmonson, Heidi Dorow, campaign style organizing, teach ins, booklets, women in aids handbook

  • Terry McGovern, defintion defines whether or not people got benefits or not

  • 300 diff groups signed up for CDC campaign

  • Women, poor people, drug users, more than just gay white men

  • January 23 1991, Day of Desperation, six days after the first Gulf War begins, Act Up demans money for AIDS not war 

  • Steve Quester, mobilize over city all day long and shut down Grand Central Station

  • CBS broadcast center, John Weir, Fight AIDS not Arabs, media moment, News story on non CBS affiliates, access to means of production, steal it to be heard

  • Joy Episalla, universal healthcare, healthcare is a right

  • Jose Fidileno, Rick Loftus, those saving their lives, others lives, and bigger picture of the world

  • Incredible success and panic and despair, movement beat itself up from the inside, energy lowered as deaths raised

  • David Robinson, ashes action, bone chips, saying peoples names, scatter ashes on white house lawn

  • David Wojnarowicz Close to The Knives, throw bodies of AIDs victims over the fence of the White House, David Wojnarowicz speeches

  • Change culture od AIDS representation and education

  • June 26 1994, Stonewall 25, ACT UP injects a sense of urgency into the apolitical anniversary celebration

  • April 25 1995, This City is Ours, As part of a broad coalition protesting massive cuts of city services, ACT UP blocks the Midtown Tunnel

  • 1996, HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy), The cocktail becomes available, revolutionizing treatment, and extending the lives of people with AIDS who have access to the drugs 

  • March 24 1997, 10th Anniversary, ACT UO celebrates by demanding lower prices for the AIDS cocktail

  • March 29 2007, 20th Anniversary, ACT UP demands Healthcare for all

  • 147 chapters of ACT UP, testing the limits, wave, gang, act up oral history project


People to note:

  • Jim Eigo

  • Peter Stayley

  • Ken Bing 

  • Bill Dobbs

  • Maxine Wolfe

  • Gregg Bordowitz

  • Tom Kalin

  • Ron Goldberg

  • David Stern

  • Jean Carlomusto

  • David Barr

  • Robert Vazquez Pacheco

  • Bob Rafsky

  • Richard Deagle

  • Dudley Saunders

  • Phyllis Sharpe

  • Bob Lederer

  • Ray Navarro

  • Phil Reed

  • Vivian Shapiro 

  • Iris De La Cruz

  • Keri Duran

  • Tim Bailey

  • Mark Lowe Fisher

  • Zoe Leonard

  • Alexis Danzig

  • Karin Timour

  • Mark Harrington

Questions/Thoughts on this utilizing media we have consumed in class: this documentary shines a light on a perspective of ACT UP that is missing in How to Survive a Plague. The perspectives of poor people, people of color, drug users, and homeless people are considered here which is a stark contrast from the other documentary. The focus shifts from the white gay man, which seems to be the main focus in many AIDS related media. The experience of those that were truly the most disadvantaged were considered in this documentary. All AIDs victims were affected, but it really all boiled down to who truly had access to healthcare and who did not. It also came down to what legislation applied to certain groups of people. Marginalized groups are often unrepresented in movements that favor the perspective of white able bodied people. This is something that is very important to consider when reflecting on the quilt. Who was represented here? Did marginalized groupd get consideration or did they go unrecognized?

Visual media to utilize: 

  • United In Anger documentary 1minute in where it says AIDS victims should be tattooed study, small video clip

  • United In Anger documentary 11:20 Vito Russo Speech video clip

  • Gran Fury Act Up Posters, activist side of movement, grieving alongside fighting

  • CBS broadcast infiltration clip, fight AIDS not Arabs, efforts for mainstream media attention and public awareness and action

  • David Wojnarowicz Close to the Knives speech, throw bodies over Washington D.C., could be an interesting addition in the background of slides maybe somehow


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