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DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
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Title
DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
Subject
AIDS, activist video, revolutionary, collective
Description
Compilation tape acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video. James Wentzy took over this project and made hundreds of hours of activist video work, recording and sharing the activism of ACT UP for many years. We featured him in the compilation, Compulsive Practice, for Visual AIDS, co-curated by Jean Carlomusto and Hugh Ryan.
DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) was founded in 1989 as a video-documenting affinity group with ACT UP AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH POWER, an activist group famous for its direct action against bureaucratic neglect and drug company profiteering in the AIDS crisis and widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics in the United States. DIVA TV documents public testimony, the media, and community activism to motivate the fight against AIDS.
DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) was founded in 1989 as a video-documenting affinity group with ACT UP AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH POWER, an activist group famous for its direct action against bureaucratic neglect and drug company profiteering in the AIDS crisis and widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics in the United States. DIVA TV documents public testimony, the media, and community activism to motivate the fight against AIDS.
Creator
AIDS Community Television, James Wentzy
Table Of Contents
#1 Premiere 29:00
#2 Healthcare 12:00
#3 (16/13?) The Role of AIDS Activists 29:00
#4Guantanomo 4/13 24:00
handwritten on label
#2 Healthcare 12:00
#3 (16/13?) The Role of AIDS Activists 29:00
#4Guantanomo 4/13 24:00
handwritten on label
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Duration
1:20 mins
Director
James Wentzy
URL
https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=10893156&node=47284852&a=121544188
Player
Files
Citation
AIDS Community Television, James Wentzy, “DIVA TV Dub: (1-4),” VHS Activism Archive , accessed December 8, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/782.
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