Contracting an Issue was a social awareness project and artistic endeavor of artist Gk Callahan and collaborator/ photographer Allison Webber. The artists produced and archived collections of public, spoken-word documentary performances that reference HIV/AIDS. The project is based on the stories of individuals and the truths they hold in varying communities around the globe. This project was created with the notion of understanding and recognizing the comparative reality we share concerning fears, prejudices, and health issues towards HIV/AIDS.

Taken from collections of interviews and making them into verbatim theater performances. Together these performances form a comprehensive, less temporal portrait of HIV/AIDS. A portrait that is relative and relatable, yet shows the diversity and reach of this unbiased disease. Asking how this disease does or does not affect people, their lives and their bodies, demonstrates a glimpse of the disease's current hold, and begins to break down the stigma attached to the disease. Because being sick is enough for one to handle, and the facts are the same for everyone.