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| How To Use A Male/Female Condom
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| Eric
Avery demonstrating how the print works in the bathroom installation at
Brasil, 2626 Dunlavy, Houston, Texas (Photos: Roger Haile) |
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In
conjunction with World AIDS Day/Day Without Art, December 1, 1995, and
as a part of Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) exhibition "Wallpaper
Works" (November 17-December 31, 1995), Eric Avery created an
installation print based explicitly on instructions in condom packages.
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Based
on widely available condom package inserts, the intent of the print installation
in nightclub/coffeehouse bathrooms was to educate young adults about the
need, if they are sexually active, to use male and female condoms and protect
themselves from HIV or other STDs. |
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Museum
staff installed this wallpaper print in repeated patterns in men and women's
bathrooms at five Houston area nightclubs and coffee houses. |
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"How
to...provides important and often unheeded, safe-sex information in a context
where it is unexpected, a space where people are not expecting an art experience,
and indeed may never be aware they're part of one."--CAM Press Release,
November 22, 1996 |
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On
February 25, 1996, after a mother's complaint about the installation at
Brasil, the Houston Police Department's Vice Squad ordered that it be destroyed.
(Click here to read more from a report in
Houston Press March 7, 1996.) |
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