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Aids is not equal Aids (17.3.2011)

C/O Berlin cordially invites you ...

to the panel discussion
Aids is not equal Aids
25 years of Aids in medical science and society

in the scope of the retrospective
of Robert Mapplethorpe

on Thursday, 24 March 2011
at 8 pm

at the Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36

Participants Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Pott . BZgA
Dr. Ulrich Heide . Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung
Carsten Schatz . Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe
Dr. Christoph Mayr . Internist . DAGNÄ e.V.
Dirk Stöllger . Representative of the BZgA campaign
Presentation Mirko Nowak . C/O Berlin

Rigorously flawless, radically focused—the still lifes and portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe are quiet, formally consummate compositions set in an atmosphere of clinical purity. Naked and flawless bodies turn into landscapes; and explicitly sexual acts become cool, almost de-eroticized studies of the body, in which technical perfection takes the foreground. Mapplethorpe toys with sexual identity and staging in his photographs. Beyond these themes, however, his work also references other concepts, such as the representation of gender, corporality, religion, sickness, and self. A critical look via lectures, discussions, and a film and video series will introduce questions about Mapplethorpe’s legacy.

You may find further information of the supporting program at www.co-berlin.com.

Robert Mapplethorpe . Retrospective
Supporting Program

Panel discussion Aids is not equal Aids
25 years of Aids in medical science and society
Date 24 March 2011 . 8 pm
Admission free
Location C/O Berlin im Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36 . 10117 Berlin

Organizer C/O Berlin
International Forum For Visual Dialogues
Contact Phone 030.28 09 19 25
info@co-berlin.com . www.co-berlin.com

Sponsor PKV
Supporter BZgA . Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung . Wall . Dinamix
Media partner taz . blu . Traffic . Face . Tip Berlin