Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, John Chaich curates the artwork of Archive Members; Stephen Andrews, Robert Blanchon, Peter Cherone, Joe DeHoyos, William Donovan, Robert Farber, Max Greenberg, Bryan Hoffman, horea, W. Benjamin Incerti, Affreka Jefferson, Frank Jump, Samuel Lewis, Steed Taylor, Frederick Weston and David Wojnarowicz.
From the Curator's Statement: As a writer and graphic designer, I am naturally drawn to using words. Yet the more I study design, the less interested I am in executing typographic perfection as I am understanding how the way words look can imply or alter what these words mean... Typography by skill is a visual treatment of words... Typography by philosophy is a medium of meaning... Or, according to Bringhurst, "a craft by which the meaning of a text (or the absence of meaning) can be clarified, honored and shared, or knowingly disguised." Can the same be said for the way artists work with text? This quest for finding works that use text-and what visual treatments they employ to create meaning-guided my curatorial exploration in the through the Visual AIDS archives. ( read more )
About the Curator Beginning his career as an HIV testing counselor and community educator, John Chaich has designed a range of multi-arts projects to raise AIDS awareness, from an educational theatre project funded with support from Do Something and the Red Hot Organization, to a nationally distributed edutainment zine by and for young adults, to social marketing campaigns recognized by Print magazine and most recently, assisting Visual AIDS with their annual broadside campaigns. He has written on visual responses to HIV/AIDS for Art & Understanding magazine, as well as contributed to BUST magazine and the anthology, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image.
Treat My Words
Curated by John Chaich
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Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, John Chaich curates the artwork of Archive Members; Stephen Andrews, Robert Blanchon, Peter Cherone, Joe DeHoyos, William Donovan, Robert Farber, Max Greenberg, Bryan Hoffman, horea, W. Benjamin Incerti, Affreka Jefferson, Frank Jump, Samuel Lewis, Steed Taylor, Frederick Weston and David Wojnarowicz.
From the Curator's Statement: As a writer and graphic designer, I am naturally drawn to using words. Yet the more I study design, the less interested I am in executing typographic perfection as I am understanding how the way words look can imply or alter what these words mean... Typography by skill is a visual treatment of words... Typography by philosophy is a medium of meaning... Or, according to Bringhurst, "a craft by which the meaning of a text (or the absence of meaning) can be clarified, honored and shared, or knowingly disguised." Can the same be said for the way artists work with text? This quest for finding works that use text-and what visual treatments they employ to create meaning-guided my curatorial exploration in the through the Visual AIDS archives. ( read more )
About the Curator Beginning his career as an HIV testing counselor and community educator, John Chaich has designed a range of multi-arts projects to raise AIDS awareness, from an educational theatre project funded with support from Do Something and the Red Hot Organization, to a nationally distributed edutainment zine by and for young adults, to social marketing campaigns recognized by Print magazine and most recently, assisting Visual AIDS with their annual broadside campaigns. He has written on visual responses to HIV/AIDS for Art & Understanding magazine, as well as contributed to BUST magazine and the anthology, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image.
image: Joe DeHoyos, Stay Stay Stay, 1995