Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway.
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Jul 8;78(3):270-303. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad012.
The visual archive of AIDS and fetish activism is a rich resource for studying interlinkages between art and science, activism and public health, politics and medicine, pleasure and sexual health prevention. This article explores AIDS and fetish activism imagery from the first two decades of the Norwegian AIDS crisis. Interrogating the materiality and visual context of images - photographs, posters, flyers, and safer sex instructions - it maps out visualization practices in leather, BDSM and AIDS activism. AIDS and fetish imagery made some bodies, pleasures, and political goals visible - and rendered others unseen. The article explores the materiality of images and their visual, social, and historical context of production, and traces their social biographies and afterlives. Fetish images were vehicles for change and actors co-producing history. They took part in destigmatizing BDSM, challenging psychiatric classification, and creating infrastructure and networks between subcultures, communities, and authorities. The visualization of fetish activism was as much about communication strategies as it was about aesthetic, style, and motive. The politics of visibility in Norwegian fetish activism point to the vulnerable project of fighting for acceptance through "respectability," while preserving the individuality and "otherness" of leather and fetish culture.
艾滋病和恋物癖激进主义的视觉档案是研究艺术与科学、激进主义与公共卫生、政治与医学、快乐与性健康预防之间相互关联的丰富资源。本文探讨了挪威艾滋病危机头二十年中的艾滋病和恋物癖激进主义意象。通过质疑图像的物质性和视觉背景——照片、海报、传单和安全性行为指南——本文描绘了皮革、BDSM 和艾滋病激进主义中的可视化实践。艾滋病和恋物癖图像使一些身体、快乐和政治目标变得可见——而使其他目标变得不可见。本文探讨了图像的物质性及其视觉、社会和历史背景，并追溯了它们的社会传记和来世。恋物癖图像是变革的载体，是共同创造历史的行为者。它们参与消除 BDSM 的污名化，挑战精神病学分类，并在亚文化、社区和当局之间创建基础设施和网络。恋物癖激进主义的可视化既是关于沟通策略，也是关于美学、风格和动机。挪威恋物癖激进主义中的可见性政治表明，通过“尊重”争取接受的项目是脆弱的，同时保护皮革和恋物癖文化的个性和“他者性”。
