Acts of Care is an XR-based exhibition that explores how practices of care emerged from queer organising in response to HIV/AIDS in early 1990s Johannesburg, with a particular focus on Soweto and the work of the Township AIDS Project (TAP).

Drawing on archival materials held by the GALA Queer Archive, including interviews, ephemera, training materials, and activist histories, the project centres forms of care that were developed in conditions of stigma, scarcity, and political transition. These include peer education, counselling, protest, performance, and the creative use of public space.

The exhibition is structured around three distinct experiential zones, drawing on the form and logic of the Homomonument in Amsterdam. The monument's three triangles, representing the past, the present, and the future, map directly onto the Acts of Care visitor journey: Caring (Witness), Loving (Recognise), and Sharing (Act). Each triangle corresponds to a mode of engagement, moving from intimate historical encounter through recognition and affirmation to public, collective participation. Together, these modes invite visitors to encounter care not as an abstract value, but as a situated, embodied, and communal practice with deep roots in the 1990s and urgent relevance today.

While the project is grounded in historical material, it is not a documentary reconstruction. Instead, it uses immersive and interactive technology to translate archival insight into experiential forms that foreground care, community, and participation. The visual and spatial design of the exhibition draws directly on the aesthetic language found in the TAP archive and in the broader queer cultural life of early 1990s Johannesburg and Soweto, bringing that graphic energy, directness, and inventiveness into the exhibition environment.

Visit the project: https://twonamegames.com/actsofcare/