Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick

This article examines the artist Helen Chadwick’s 1989 digital montage series Viral Landscapes as an intervention in discourses of immunity circulating around the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the UK. The Viral Landscapes are unusual for art of this period in working closely with medical concepts and technol...

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Published in:Sexualities 2026-03, Vol.29 (3), p.388-404
Main Author: Husain, Amber
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Aesthetics
AIDS
Alternative approaches
Biomedicine
Discourses
Epidemics
HIV
Human body
Human immunodeficiency virus
Immunology
Intervention
Landscape
Sexuality
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