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Not art: Creativity, chaos and activism

Abigail Groves

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The International AIDS Conference in Melbourne earlier this year featured a strong artistic component, with the National Gallery of Victoria hosting a retrospective of work by gay artist David McDiarmid attracting thousands of visitors. While the exhibition, entitled When This You See Remember Me, was shown at the Ian Potter Centre in the city's Federation Square, across town at the University of Melbourne's Student Union Building, there was another exhibition. TRANSMISSIONS: Archiving HIV/AIDS, Melbourne 1979-2014 chronicled the city's response to HIV/ AIDS from 1979, when the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Victoria began in earnest.

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The International AIDS Conference in Melbourne earlier this year featured a strong artistic component, with the National Gallery of Victoria hosting a retrospective of work by gay artist David McDiarmid attracting thousands of visitors. While the exhibition, entitled When This You See Remember Me, was shown at the Ian Potter Centre in the city's Federation Square, across town at the University of Melbourne's Student Union Building, there was another exhibition. TRANSMISSIONS: Archiving HIV/AIDS, Melbourne 1979-2014 chronicled the city's response to HIV/ AIDS from 1979, when the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Victoria began in earnest.

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The International AIDS Conference in Melbourne earlier this year featured a strong artistic component, with the National Gallery of Victoria hosting a retrospective of work by gay artist David McDiarmid attracting thousands of visitors. While the exhibition, entitled When This You See Remember Me, was shown at the Ian Potter Centre in the city's Federation Square, across town at the University of Melbourne's Student Union Building, there was another exhibition. TRANSMISSIONS: Archiving HIV/AIDS, Melbourne 1979-2014 chronicled the city's response to HIV/ AIDS from 1979, when the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Victoria began in earnest.

Key concepts: Exhibition, Project commissioning, Publishing, Creativity, Work (physics), Media studies, Visual arts, Sociology

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