About
The exhibition I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS & Classical Music consists of print scores, audio recordings, related ephemera, and an accompanying listening list curated by Kevin Madill, Music Librarian, the University of British Columbia. Exhibited works were selected from the music collection of UBC Library or borrowed from anonymous sources.
The one-hour cross-library exhibition tours on September 27 and 29, 2023, 12-1 pm, offer an introduction to the exhibition led by curator Kevin Madill. Sign-up is requested but not required. Bring an umbrella in case of rain. The meeting location is the foyer of the Music Library.
The exhibition runs from September 27, 2023, to December 15, 2023, in the foyers of Music Library and Gerstein Library, University of Toronto, and at Hart House Library.
Curator
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Kevin Madill
Music Librarian
Kevin Madill is Music Librarian at the University of British Columbia. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1955 and spent his formative years living in small towns and on army bases scattered across rural Canada. He holds a Master of Library and Information Studies degree from UBC, a BMus (Honors, Theory and Composition) from Western University, as well as an MFA and a BFA from UBC. Previous positions include library administrator, library manager, and liaison/collections librarian in academic and special libraries in the United States and Canada including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Along with his role as Music Librarian at UBC, Kevin has served as Adjunct Faculty with the UBC iSchool where he taught library collection management (2017-19) and as Elected Representative of Professional Librarians on UBC Senate (2015-19). Kevin is active in the cultural realm as both writer and visual artist. He is the author of the exhibition’s accompanying article, I’ve Got U Under My Skin: AIDS and Classical Music, published in Imaginations, a multilingual, open-access journal of international visual cultural studies. His photomurals explore the interconnectedness of modernity, personal identity, and portraiture and are held by several museums in the Pacific Northwest. A collection of his work is available for online viewing through the solo exhibition Vancouver Modern: on the limits of portraiture.
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