Announcements

A Poetics of Being: Mykki Blanco’s STONES AND WATER WEIGHT

Uri McMillan responds to Mykki Blanco's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "Stage kid, art school dropout, self-professed art freak, riot-girl, punk poet, indie rapper, cross-dresser poet extraordinaire: all of these audacious avatars adhere to and yet fail to fully capture the polyglot persona that is model-artist-performer-poet-rapper Mykki Blanco." → Read More

Lucas Michael: Black in Three Colors

Curator Adam Barbu reflects on work by Artist+ Member Lucas Michael: "Three absent colors enact a deferral of self-image and self-knowledge—a deferral of what we have been taught about who we are. In a world of cultural assimilation and outright erasure, this deferral is the performance of a wish to remain outside, divergent, and queer. Deferral is grace." → Read More

Bittersweet Kinetic

Will Rawls responds to Kia LaBeija's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "LaBeija’s film subtly urges us to witness the tricks of time on our perception, of timing on our creation of meaning. It’s a deft, dancing study of association, apposition and time-as-material." → Read More

Linda Villarosa on “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”

Linda Villarosa responds to Thomas Allen Harris' video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "The stories of black gay men, both the tragedy and the triumph, deserve to be heard. They help show, as Harris says, 'that our lives are worth saving and fighting for.'” → Read More

“100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)” has #nofilter

Kenyon Farrow responds to Brontez Purnell's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "In the age of self-making through social media, '100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)' is a refreshing look at what it means to be a Black queer man now—#nofilter." → Read More

The Art of Remixing: Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro's “DiAna's Hair Ego REMIX”

Darius Bost responds to Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "The film offers us a fresh vision—a multilayered, intersectional, and malleable approach to ongoing struggles against AIDS. It asks us to remember and to build on the legacy of black women’s labor, knowledge production, and creativity in the fight against AIDS." → Read More

Introducing 2018 Visual AIDS Curatorial Resident MC Roodt

MC lives and works in Bloemfontein, South Africa and will coordinate an Arts & Health program and a transnational and online exhibition during his March residency with Visual AIDS in New York City. Welcome MC! → Read More

LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Open Arms in Rural South Africa

A small, courageous village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa rises above HIV stigma to show its support for HIV+ women around the world. Reflection and photographs by Pippa Hetherington. → Read More

ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS Video & Artist Statement: Tourmaline

Tourmaline discusses her video "Atlantic is a Sea of Bones," commissioned for Day With(out) Art 2017. → Read More

ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS Video & Artist Statement: Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro

Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro discuss their video "DiAna's Hair Ego REMIX," commissioned for Day With(out) Art 2017. → Read More