Affective Transmissions: A Message from Health Initiative for Men

In this installment of Affective Transmissions, Griffin Art Projects brings you a message from Health Initiative for Men, a non-profit society that aims to strengthen the health and well-being of gay men, wiith five health centres throughout the Lower Mainland. In this video Aaron Purdie, Associate Director, Programs and Interventions, considers the impact that Covid-19 has had on queer communities across the globe, heightening the isolation, marginalization and lack of services that queer communities already face on a daily basis. Aaron reflects on how HiM has adapted their services to provide support and positive messaging during the current pandemic. Learn more at https://checkhimout.ca/covid19/.

Affective Transmissions: Griffin Art Projects has been surveying the social, emotional and political themes of pandemic culture through sharing content emerging from our current exhibition, The Sodomite Invasion. Through this exhibition and related archival materials related to Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs' oeuvre, we will continue to explore the worldshaping impact of pandemics through our series, Affective Transmissions, based on the in the transdisciplinary nature of this enquiry. Theorist Lisa Blackman suggests that affect may govern our responses, across political, embodied and collective experience. Over the forthcoming weeks, Affective Transmissions will continue to explore this subject and open the exhibition on-screen and online, through these gestures.