Gallery Talk: “(Un)Masking Health”
In this February 10, 2022, gallery talk, faculty curator Ivan Bujan, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, discussed notions of health in relation to exclusionary ideologies of race, gender, sexuality, ability, and class. In addition to scrutinizing notions of what a healthy body is—and according to whom—his spring 2022 Teaching Gallery installation, (Un)masking Health: Counter Perspectives, also invites us to reconsider the role that historical and contemporary grassroots movements, including the ongoing AIDS movement and the Movement for Black Lives, have had in connecting issues of health and social justice.