AIDS Affects U$ All (AAUA) is a traveling photographic exhibition used as an AIDS prevention and education tool.
The work includes photographs from the early 1990's done at the Maitri Hospice for People with AIDS, the first Buddhist AIDS Hospice in America and the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. New York includes images and text from 3 cities in Cuba (Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba) and 2 AIDS Hospices in Juarez, Mexico. Cuba has the lowest infection rate in Latin America. Juarez has a high infection rate as weli as many other problems common to border towns including drug trafficking and disappearances of women. This work is used to raise awareness concerning malnutrition, unclean water and safe sex.
This project focuses on AIDS prevention and education through
photographs and accompanying text. Because the people I want to
reach
do not usually go to art galleries, my intent is to bring the
exhibition to them; to places where they come upon the images by
accident; where they gather to do something other than viewing
art.
This is what I call " Accidental Art". So the work can appear in
public places where people congregate to do ordinary things like
standing in line or sitting in a waiting area -- places like entrances
to college libraries, community centers, rape crisis centers, hospital
waiting rooms, soup kitchens, churches, banks, government buildings,
bus, train or plane terminals, anywhere other than galleries and
restaurants. My hope is to reach as many people as possible; to
touch
ordinary folks in ordinary places. Remember, AIDS Affects U$ All,
whoever we are and wherever we go.
Project Website: www.aidsaffectsusall.com
Project
Director: Morgan Alexander
Contact Number: +1 805.646.5921
Website
Credits
Modified: 2005-11-03