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This collaborative work created specifically for the 1992 Day Without ArtAIDS Awareness Day addresses what Thornton terms the relationship between the medicalization of the body and the personal While the actor Ron Vawter reads aloud from a poem by Rilke a doctor is heard discussing Vawters medical condition Medical photographs of internal organs and images of the moons surface create landscapes of inner and outer space This haunting rumination suggests the disparity between medical interpretations and personal experiences of physicality and mortality
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