Thursday March 29, 2018

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

Thursday March 22, 2018

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

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

Tuesday March 20, 2018

“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

Monday February 26, 2018

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

Wednesday February 7, 2018

Introducing 2018 Visual AIDS Curatorial Resident MC Roodt

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

Thursday February 1, 2018

LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Open Arms in Rural South Africa

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