Lecture Performance
Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger:
DNCB—A History of Irritation
Infos
Lecture Performance
Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger:
DNCB—A History of Irritation
In the frame of the exhibition Double Exposure
25.11.2023, 4 pm
Exhibition space Camera Austria
in English language
Free admission
Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, still from: DNCB, 2021.
Intro
DNCB stands for Dinitrochlorobenzene. It is used in the development of analogue color film. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the substance was also employed as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics around the USA and Canada. Its actual benefits were never scientifically studied. Around the same time in Germany a study of the flowering plant Saint John’s wort as a treatment for HIV received government support, while other AIDS research was severely underfunded. In this performance lecture, Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger share some of their research into these two overlapping histories and relate them to health, skin, light, and film.