Future Archive: PrEP
Brody Weaver and the PrEP Action Committee of Nova ScotiaSingle channel video
00:16:49
2019
This video was made a year before Gilead Science’s patent on an HIV/ AIDS treatment medication, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), expired in September 2020. Before this date, this pharmaceutical company had a monopoly on the production and sale of this life saving medicine and abused this power for profit.
This work imagined a future wherein the patent has expired and exists in the archive alongside other examples of neglect and violence at the hands of state institutions and corporations. Appropriating conventions from archival science, it uses the archive as a form and space of thought, negotiating platform, history, and activism.
This project involved consultation with the Nova Scotia PrEP Action Committee of Dalhousie University, led by Dr. Matthew Numer.
Further reading on PrEP, HIV and Nova Scotia in 2018:
> MacLean, Alexa. “’HIV rates could increase’: Sexual health panel calls for universal medication funding.” Global TV, 25 July 2018.
> MacLean, Alexa. “HIV ‘outbreak’ in N.S. continues to rise as awareness week kicks off.” Global TV, 29 Nov. 2018.
Local advocacy groups:
> PrEP Nova Scotia
> AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia
This work imagined a future wherein the patent has expired and exists in the archive alongside other examples of neglect and violence at the hands of state institutions and corporations. Appropriating conventions from archival science, it uses the archive as a form and space of thought, negotiating platform, history, and activism.
This project involved consultation with the Nova Scotia PrEP Action Committee of Dalhousie University, led by Dr. Matthew Numer.
Further reading on PrEP, HIV and Nova Scotia in 2018:
> MacLean, Alexa. “’HIV rates could increase’: Sexual health panel calls for universal medication funding.” Global TV, 25 July 2018.
> MacLean, Alexa. “HIV ‘outbreak’ in N.S. continues to rise as awareness week kicks off.” Global TV, 29 Nov. 2018.
Local advocacy groups:
> PrEP Nova Scotia
> AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia