World AIDS Day: Visual AIDS & LGBT University Groups
Posted Dec 01 2008 12:00am
For World AIDS Day, Visual AIDS distributed our current series of Broadsides to over 140 LGBT University Groups nationwide. The Broadsides -- artist-designed projects promoting Safer Sex and AIDS Awareness -- include a mini-poster designed by William Powhida and four stickers designed by Noah Lyon. These Broadsides use provocative visual art to address the rising HIV infection rate among young adults and bring safe & sexy back. Click here for more information on Broadsides, including downloadable version.
William Powhida My drawing for Visual AIDS is an attempt to superimpose a real voice, one that teens and young adults, might recognize over the official voice of a fictional hand out on Safer Sex Practices. The text for the work is drawn from an AIDS fact sheet widely available on the Internet that among other things promotes abstinence only. The reality of the fact sheet diverges from the experiences that my students share with me as a high school teacher. During the last eight years the Bush Administration has promoted abstinence first at home and around the globe. It does a disservice to humanity to ignore the difficult choices people make and moralize in the face of an epidemic. Research shows that condom distribution doesn’t encourage sex and reduces the spread of HIV. I hope that the message in my work will ultimately make people think through their laughter about the politics of fear and the importance of harm reduction.
Noah Lyon I like to make people think so I use a lot of double entendres in my work. Stuff that appeals to the dumbest of the dumb and people who think they’re really smart…all at the same time. The “LET’S GET IT ON” image is a reference to the classic love-making anthem by Marvin Gaye, but also, let’s have fun getting “it” (a.k.a. “the condom”) on your dick or my dick or both of our dicks. The smiling condom cartoon that says “COME ON IN!” is a penetration invitation, but it’s also telling people where to put their cum…in the tip of a condom. The “SAFE SEX Rules!” images references punk rock & heavy metal bands. If I can prevent one pimply teenager from getting AIDS with a punk rock button then the Retard Riot Badge Bomb has done something truly awesome.
If you would like a set of Willam Powhida posters and/or Noah Lyon stickers, please contact Visual AIDS info@visualAIDS.org
For World AIDS Day, Visual AIDS distributed our current series of Broadsides to over 140 LGBT University Groups nationwide. The Broadsides -- artist-designed projects promoting Safer Sex and AIDS Awareness -- include a mini-poster designed by William Powhida and four stickers designed by Noah Lyon. These Broadsides use provocative visual art to address the rising HIV infection rate among young adults and bring safe & sexy back. Click here for more information on Broadsides, including downloadable version.
William Powhida
My drawing for Visual AIDS is an attempt to superimpose a real voice, one that teens and young adults, might recognize over the official voice of a fictional hand out on Safer Sex Practices. The text for the work is drawn from an AIDS fact sheet widely available on the Internet that among other things promotes abstinence only. The reality of the fact sheet diverges from the experiences that my students share with me as a high school teacher. During the last eight years the Bush Administration has promoted abstinence first at home and around the globe. It does a disservice to humanity to ignore the difficult choices people make and moralize in the face of an epidemic. Research shows that condom distribution doesn’t encourage sex and reduces the spread of HIV. I hope that the message in my work will ultimately make people think through their laughter about the politics of fear and the importance of harm reduction.
Noah Lyon
I like to make people think so I use a lot of double entendres in my work. Stuff that appeals to the dumbest of the dumb and people who think they’re really smart…all at the same time. The “LET’S GET IT ON” image is a reference to the classic love-making anthem by Marvin Gaye, but also, let’s have fun getting “it” (a.k.a. “the condom”) on your dick or my dick or both of our dicks. The smiling condom cartoon that says “COME ON IN!” is a penetration invitation, but it’s also telling people where to put their cum…in the tip of a condom. The “SAFE SEX Rules!” images references punk rock & heavy metal bands. If I can prevent one pimply teenager from getting AIDS with a punk rock button then the Retard Riot Badge Bomb has done something truly awesome.
If you would like a set of Willam Powhida posters and/or Noah Lyon stickers, please contact Visual AIDS info@visualAIDS.org