Title

Rubber Love: Language & Representations

Venues

UTS Gallery (28 May 2001 – 22 June 2001)

Date

(2001)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Various media

Curator

Mr. Leong K. Chan, University of New South Wales; Dr. Raymond Donovan, University of Newcastle.

Abstract

Opening address by:
The Hon. Neal Blewett,
former Commonwealth Minister of Health.

Exhibition curated by:
Mr. Leong K. Chan, University of New South Wales.
Dr. Raymond Donovan, University of Newcastle.

Rubber Love: Language & Representations. HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia is an exploration of public health material culture from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, exploring language and representations in the promotion of safer sex campaigns.

The exhibition comprises graphic materials, mostly posters but also brochures, booklets, call cards, condom packs, and postcards, not widely seen outside the home countries. Focusing on four themes - family, fidelity, multi-racialism, and the state - Rubber Love traces the graphic responses and the cultural problematics associated with the epidemic in South-East Asia.

Governments and community-based organisations in South-East Asia adapt, modify and stylise campaigns to address their multi-racial heritages, cultural ideologies and regional demographics. From a socio-graphic perspective, Rubber Love explores the range of images and texts as reflections and representations of national strategies, cultural narratives, political discourses and public responses to the epidemic in the region. [gallery media]