@article{ahip 933, author = {Tess Charnley}, title = {Leaking Bodies in the Anthropocene: From HIV to COVID-19}, volume = {2}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/933/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.16997/ahip.933}, abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has brought leaking to the forefronts of our minds. Not just in terms of our individual leaking, the virus moving between our bodies in an invisible seeping, but also our collective leaking; the leaking on and into the planet that has engendered the Anthropocene and, now, the Virocene. We cannot disentangle the COVID-19 pandemic, with its zoonotic origins, from the Anthropocene, the human mixing of species, live and dead, creating the perfect environment for viral transmission. The idea of leaking can be traced through a number of theoretical avenues. Through feminism, and the patriarchal desire to seal up women’s bodies, to the AIDS crisis and the stigmatisation and fear of the bodily leaking of gay men, to the leaking of greenhouse gases and the destruction of the environment, to COVID-19. I will trace these ideas through this essay, anchored in imagery; from Andres Serrano’s <i>Piss Christ </i>to Nicole Eisenman’s <i>Sloppy Bar Room Kiss</i>, considering the fine border between leaking and containment, a knife edge by which we now live.}, month = {3}, keywords = {leaking,Covid-19,bodies,HIV,art}, issn = {2633-4321}, publisher={University of Westminster Press}, journal = {Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman} }