Patten, a teacher at the Art Institute in Chicago, videomaker, writer and occasional curator, will begin her lecture at UK at 4 p.m. in Room 234 of the White Hall Classroom Building. "ACT UP: The Out-Takes " revisits the activist media strategies used by "ACT UP," the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and its offshoots from the mid-80s to the early 1990s. Framed by mythologies and debates about AIDS and the decline of AIDS activism, this presentation will examine personal as well as public video documents, include rarely seen footage of actions, gay pride parades, political funerals, videozines and activist home movies. This clip show will question the extent to which ACT UP's imagery and street style have become absorbed within a larger context of commodified "queerness," the "lesbian chic" and the professionalization of the AIDS movement.

The event is co-sponsored by the UK Department of Geography, the Social Theory Committee, the College of Social Work and the Department of Sociology.