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Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
Visual AIDS announces a program of six videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics.
Everyone I Know Is Sick will feature newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:
Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong)
Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil)
Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines)
Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA)
Vasilios Papapitsios (USA)
Kurt Weston (USA)
The artists in this year’s program were selected through an open call process juried by writer Kimberly Drew and artists Marguerite Van Cook, Charan Singh, and Pato Hebert.
The hour-long video program will premiere on December 1, 2023, World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. Visual AIDS partners with over 150 museums, galleries, universities, and organizations around the world to present free screenings on/around December 1.
If you are interested in screening this year’s Day With(out) Art video program, please visit this page for more information.