In September 2023 we will host a public program at The Whitney Museum of American Art to celebrate the launch of this online platform and publicize the Oral History project. The program will feature edited highlights from a number of oral histories as well as a discussion facilitated by project lead and HIV-positive poet Cea (Constantine Jones). In conversation with Cea will be two long-term surviving participating artists, Shirlene Cooper and Marguerite Van Cook, as well as artist/archivist/educator Shane Aslan Seltzer and artist/educator Katherine Cheairs, who worked with Cea to conceptualize the project’s framework. “The Body As An Archive” has […]