You'll spend an evening exploring the science and visual culture of HIV. Mingle with a group of artists and clinicians who work with HIV in different ways. You can talk to them about the art installation or about the science of HIV over a gin and tonic at the (cash-only) bar. 

You could also take a tarot card reading or join a more in-depth discussion about  HIV. Throughout the evening you can visit the 'Alien Sex Club' installation, which is part of the 'Somewhere in Between’ exhibition.

Late

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Somewhere in Between exhibition. Alien Sex Club by John Walter, in collaboration with Alison Rodger

Ask the tarot card readers for an unconventional reading using John Walter’s tarot cards from the ‘Alien Sex Club’ installation.

Find the tarot card readers on level 0 and level 1 all evening.

<p>An event where someone will put on a show for you to watch.</p>

Performance

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Tarot Card Reading

You can to speak to a clinician about what’s involved in HIV testing and its consequences, and even take a confidential HIV test if you wish.  

Testing will be done by Marie Rousseau and clinicians from the Caldecot Centre, an NHS-run sexual health centre based at King's College Hospital. Results of the tests will be available within one minute of taking the test.

If you have any questions about taking the HIV test at this event, you can contact us at info@wellcomecollection.org.

Come to the meeting point in the 'Medicine Now' gallery on level 1 if you want to know more about HIV testing. The testing itself will take place in private, behind screens.

<p>A chance to hear about and talk about ideas with others.</p>

Discussion

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HIV Testing

Drop in and take a seat at the Long Table, where you can join the discussion along with artists and clinicians talking about HIV in the visual arts, current HIV therapies or any other topics related to HIV that you wish to raise.   

At the Long Table, conversation is the only course, but there can be silence. It’s a democracy, so no one will moderate you, but a host may assist you. Feel free to write on the tablecloth.

If you leave the table you can come back again and again.

Your host, Topher Campbell, is a filmmaker, theatre maker, actor, writer, social commentator, and social justice advocate. Campbell co-founded rukus! Federation, an arts collective dedicated to presenting the best work by Black LGBTQ artists, and co-created the UK’s first and only archive dedicated to the lives and history of Black LGBTQ people.

John Walter, an artist, curator and writer. His work considers complex and uncomfortable subjects, including sexual health, and he draws audiences in through an exuberant use of colour, humour and hospitality. He received a Wellcome Arts Award in 2014 to produce ‘Alien Sex Club’, and another in 2016 for ‘CAPSID’, a project that looks in depth at how the HIV virus works.

Dr Nneka Nwokolo, a London based consultant physician in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine with extensive experience in the management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. She is particularly interested in HIV prevention and has participated in several studies of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

The Forum is on level 1. Enter the ‘Medicine Now’ gallery and turn left to find it.

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Somewhere in Between

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

The Forum

Long Table Discussion