Announcements

A Tribute to Carol Leigh (1952–2022) and Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski (1957–2022)

Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz, and Hugh Ryan offer a tribute to two artists featured in their 2016 video COMPULSIVE PRACTICE who passed away in 2022. → Read More

Revisiting 'A Leap in the Dark' After Thirty Years

Ryan Conrad speaks with activists Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison, who edited the influential 1992 anthology A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures. → Read More

Nelson Edwin Rodriguez: Love, Loss, Memory

Visual AIDS Research Fellow aliwen considers camp and sensuality in the photography of Nelson Edwin Rodriguez (1972–1995), as part of a series of original scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project. → Read More

More Life: Photographer Leslie Kaliades’s Turn Toward the Moving Image

As part of a new series of scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project, Olivia McCall considers breath and movement in the film and video works of Leslie Kaliades. → Read More

Convocatoria de propuestas: Día sin Arte 2024

Visual AIDS invites artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for new video works to be produced and distributed to over 150 venues worldwide for Day With(out) Art 2024. DEADLINE: JUNE 25 → Read More

Myth-Making and Shaking: the Subversive Art of David Cannon Dashiell

As part of a new series of scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project, Gina Prat Lilly explores the transgressive work of David Cannon Dashiell. → Read More

Are you a woman or femme living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day?

Visual AIDS, Fire Island Artist Residency, Positive Women's Network — USA, The Well Project, and Dieu Donne are all collaborating to do something special for women and femmes living with HIV. → Read More

Now Streaming: Being & Belonging

Seven new artist videos centering the emotional realities of living with HIV today, released on December 1, World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. → Read More

Michael Slocum, Zander Alexander, PWA and the Black Gay Ordinary

In this installment of a new series of scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project, Olivia R. Polk considers the role of the "Black gay ordinary" in the work of Michael Slocum (1956–1995), an editor of the early AIDS magazine PWA Newsline and a comics artist. → Read More

Announcing Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging

Seven new artist videos centering the emotional realities of living with HIV today, screening at 100+ institutions around the world on/around December 1, World AIDS Day. → Read More