Installation by Margot Lovejoy Fine Arts Gallery Southampton Graduate Campus March, 1997 AIDS provokes a confrontation with the body as a disputed social space. ANAMNESIA is a piece which links the AIDS plague with current anxieties about the political and social invasion of the body's privacy. An injury is a shock and the relationship between shock and amnesia is well understood. Violation of the body's physical borders force a reconsideration of histories where the political, technological, and psychological meet. To be treated, wounds as history have to be read, interpreted, deciphered. ANAMNESIA signifies a recalling to memory. It involves understanding the complete case history of the personal. In this video and slide projection work, juxtapositions of imagery are meant to conjure up associations in the viewer's mind. The texts projected into a vapor stream are meant to function as subconscious subtexts to the psychological wounds we have experienced personally and collectively. These wounds need remembrance and a voice to heal the pain, the loss, the disintegration that constitutes our time. Sound: Brooks Williams, Harrnonic Ranch Studio Video Editing: Mary Ann Toman, Film/Video Arts Research: Kristin Lovejoy Video Consultants: Peter Chen and Richard Di Lorenzo, MPC AIDS Images, Part 1: Donna Pinder and Gary Wagner, lmpact Visuals Text adaptations 2, 4; 5; 6 from Gregory Whitehead's Display Wounds