Organization: Genspace
Workshop: Protest Art - Science of Race, Sex, Health.
Role: Curriculum development + Instructor
The global COVID-19 pandemic has cast us deep into questions of how the science and politics of health affect our private and public lives. These times have impressed upon us how the science and politics of the body are a reflection of how we value our fellow humans near and far.
How do the scientific and medical gaze affect how we know, define, value and govern bodies as material and data? How do the politics of the individual to maintain a healthy body compare to the politics of nations to facilitate the achievement of healthy communities and populations? Do we all have a right to health? Who do we save first and why?
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Images: promotional images; workshop listing; still from VICE media’s segment ‘Autoinfected - The Frikis of Cuba’ - about the Cuban punk movement where members infect themselves with HIV so that they can live a better life in the sanitorium away from the harassment of the police; items from the MAGA Hat Collection by artist Kate Kretz.