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Gran Fury was a New York–based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP, an organisation founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States through political activism. The collective’s innovative graphic design campaigns were mobilised in demonstrations to reveal the disdain, neglect and silence of Ronald Reagan’s administration during the epidemic. This richly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive survey of the collective’s body of work.The group produced posters, newspapers, stickers, photographs, videos and billboards that were circulated to transform perceptions about HIV/AIDS, interrogate ineffective public policies and underreported government data, interrupt misconceptions disseminated by the media, confront the morality of religious institutions, and alleviate the stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. They worked closely with other activist groups, including theSilence=Death Project, whose posters featuring a pink triangle came to be a defining visual of the AIDS crisis. Named for the vehicle favoured by the New York City police, Gran Fury formed to summon a sense of collective indignation.
It includes unpublished essays, historical interviews, rare pamphlets, photographs and ephemera that altogether chart the development of a new visual language for effecting social change. Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is an indispensable reference for the study of the intersection of activism and the arts in the late 20th century.
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