Ekografias of hiv/aid$
hiv/aids, contemporary art, listening, black people.
These writings, located in the line of research "Documents of Cultural Memory", investigate contemporary arts, capable of helping black and HIV positive people, listening to what, from there, emerge as silence, noise, echo and sound, to tell other stories of forty years of existence of the epidemic. The literary fragments presented here focus on the forge of ekography as a method of literary criticism, understanding the field as an expanded space-time, in this sense, encompassing performances, video performance, cinema, music, theater, writings and visual arts. Theekographic work is inspired by the lives crossed by the signs of racial grammar, also by the experience of living with the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The two markers identify the field of contemporary arts that identify the "third" element as a signifier capable of facing stigma and the bases of pressure derived from the idea of race. Ekographing a hiv/aids epidemic is managing the senses, disinvesting in the centrality of the eye, making the forty-year-old echo possibilities to understand the scenario and approach issues that have been relegated in time, such as the persistence of deaths in the population, life psychic and subjective dynamics that cross a body marked by two social signs of death.