Affective Transmission

Affective Transmissions: Revisiting The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter with Filmmaker David Paperny

This week, we explore The Sodomite Invasion’s main themes of activism, care, and HIV/AIDS through the lens of public health. Vancouver-based Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker David Paperny revisits his film "The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter", his memories of Dr. Peter, his thoughts on how the HIV/AIDS crisis parallels with our current challenges surrounding Covid-19. Griffin is pleased to partner with the Dr.Peter AIDS Foundation and HIM Health Initiative for Men on this project. Watch the entire documentary online at this link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1588174483 

Affective Transmissions: Griffin Art Projects has been surveying the social, emotional and political themes of pandemic culture through sharing content emerging from our current exhibition, The Sodomite Invasion. Through this exhibition and related archival materials related to Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs' oeuvre, we will continue to explore the worldshaping impact of pandemics through our series, Affective Transmissions, based on the in the transdisciplinary nature of this enquiry. Theorist Lisa Blackman suggests that affect may govern our responses, across political, embodied and collective experience. Over the forthcoming weeks, Affective Transmissions will continue to explore this subject and open the exhibition on-screen and online, through these gestures.