ALTERNATE ENDINGS is a video program for the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art showcasing provocative new works that reflect and respond to the ongoing AIDS pandemic.

On December 1, 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day With(out) Art—a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To honor the 25th year of Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS has commissioned seven artists/collectives—Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Lyle Ashton Harris, Derek Jackson, Tom Kalin, My Barbarian, and Julie Tolentino/Abigail Severance—to create new short videos to be screened internationally on/around December 1, 2014. Visual AIDS is partnering with approximately fifty sponsoring organizations and hosting venues to distribute ALTERNATE ENDINGS internationally.

ALTERNATE ENDINGS highlights the diverse voices of seven artists that use video to bring together charged moments and memories from their personal perspective amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS. The short videos in ALTERNATE ENDINGS use a mix of found footage, live performance, still photos, and robotic cameras to weave together connections between personal stories and public memories. They share tales of love and breakups, sing songs of defiance, celebrate action, and remember those whom we have lost. Through these diverse stories we are invited to reflect upon our complex past as we envision divergent narratives and possibilities for the future, because AIDS IS NOT OVER.

WATCH ONLINE HERE

Please share your favorite videos online, using hashtags #AlternateEnding #VisualAIDS #DayWithoutArt

Read reviews:

Unanticipated Alternate Endings, Media Praxis

A New Generation of Art for a New Generation of HIV, Art F City

Alternate Endings (Interview with Tom Kalin & Derek Jackson), A&U

What’s Your Alternate Ending?, Filthy Dreams

Watch the post-screening discussion videos:

SVA Theatre featuring Amy Taubin, Tom Kalin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Derek Jackson and Wanda Hernandez-Parks

New Museum featuring Glen Fogel, My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, and Malik Gaines) and Tom Kalin.

ALTERNATE ENDINGS:

SCREENING LOCATIONS

New York City, NY

★ SVA Theatre (333 W 23rd St, NY NY 10011), Monday December 1, 7pm, Screening Premiere Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Tom Kalin, Lyle Ashton Harris and Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger as well as Wanda Hernandez-Parks (VOCAL-NY), moderated by Amy Taubin (website)

Post-screening discussion videos from the SVA Theatre can be viewed HERE.

BRIC (647 Fulton Street at Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217), Monday December 1, 1-6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Hunter College (The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 68th Street & Lexington Ave., SW Corner, NY NY 10065), Monday December 1, 1–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

New School (66 West 12th Street, Room 510, NY NY 10011), Thursday December 4, 8pm, Screening Event with Q&A led by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Alex Fialho (website)

★ New Museum (235 Bowery, NY NY 10002), Friday December 5, 7pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade), Glen Fogel, and Tom Kalin (website)

Post-screening discussion videos from the New Museum can be viewed HERE.

Queens Museum (NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368), Saturday December 6, 12–5:30 pm, Looping Projection in Queens Museum Theater with an accompanying series of bilingual English/Spanish workshops, presentations, performances and discussions featuring: QM Queens Teens in collaboration with HIV Educators and Artists from GrenAIDS Cristobal Guerra and Cassidy Gardner; GrenAIDS vogueing artist Kia Labeija; Media scholar and memory activist Julian de Mayo Rodriguez and journalist Luis Gallo; artist Camilo Godoy moderating a conversation with 4 HIV+ Latin@ immigrants; HIV Testing with Voces Latinas (website)

★ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238), Saturday December 6, 8:30pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger and Glen Fogel in conjunction with First Saturdays (website)

★ Studio Museum in Harlem in conjunction with Columbia University School of the Arts (144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027), Sunday December 7, 4pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Tom Kalin and Lyle Ashton Harris, moderated by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Alex Fialho (website)

★ includes discussion with filmmakers and related Visual AIDS programming

Abu Dhabi, United Arab

Emirates NYU Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Monday December 1st, 6PM, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion with Debra Levine, Assistant Professor of Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi in conjunction with the Anchorage Society.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504), Monday December 1, 10am–6pm, Video Gallery, Looping Presentation

Ashland, OR

Southern Oregon University - Diversions in the Stevenson Union (1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520), Monday December 1, 10–4pm, Looping Presentation

Athens, OH

LGBT Center, Ohio University (354 Baker University Center, Athens, OH 45701), Monday December 1, 5pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion led by LGBT Center Director Delfin Bautista

Bloomington, IN

Indiana University in conjunction with the Kinsey Institute and Health & Wellness Education, Indiana University Health Center (Woodburn 100, Bloomington, IN 47405), Monday December 1, 4pm, Screening Event and presentations by Doug Bauder, GLBT Student Support Services Director and Positive Link (website)

Boulder, CO

University of Colorado Art Museum (1085 18th St. Boulder, CO 80309), Monday–Friday December 1–5, 10am–5pm, Balcony Looping Gallery Presentation

Buffalo, NY

112 Center for the Arts (State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event introduced by Jonathan D. Katz; Co-Sponsored by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Queer Art Lecture Series, The Department of Media Study Center for Global Media, Squeaky Wheel, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, and the Queer Studies Research Workshop.

Claremont, CA

Scripps College (Humanities Auditorium, Claremont, CA 91711), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event sponsored by the Queer Resource Center of The Claremont Colleges

Columbus, OH

Student Life Multicultural Center (Ohio Union Suite 1000, 1739 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210), Monday December 1, 8pm, Screening Event with a post-discussion featuring local resources

Chicago, IL

The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642), Monday December 1, 7pm, Screening Event (website)

Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (33 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60603), Monday December 1, 11 am–6 pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event (website)

SMU, Meadows School of the Arts, Doolin Gallery (6101 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, TX) Monday December 1, 1–5pm. Looping Gallery Presentation

Davidson, NC

Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College (315 N Main St, Davidson, NC 28036), Tuesday December 2, 11am, Common Hour Screening Event, Semans Lecture Hall, Belk Visual Art Center

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2001 Campus Dr., Durham, NC 27701), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh College of Art (Minto House, 20-22 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ), Monday December 1, 1pm, Screening event introduced by Fiona Anderson (Department of History of Art)

Fort Worth, TX

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107), Wednesday December 3, 2 pm, Screening Event with a post-screening spotlight tour of works in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s (website)

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (2900 W. Berry St., Fort Worth, TX 76109), Monday December 1, 5-7pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Hartford, CT

Real Art Ways (56 Arbor St #1, Hartford, CT 06106), Monday December 1, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Houston, TX

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006), Tuesday–Sunday December 2–7, Museum hours, Looping Elevator Presentation

DiverseWorks (4102 Fannin St, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77004), December 3–20, 12–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Istanbul, Turkey

Space Debris Art (Kemankes Mah., Hoca Tahsin Sok. No:15, Floor 1, Karakoy ISTANBUL, Turkey) Monday December 1, 7:30pm Screening Event + Monday–Wednesday December 1–3, 12–7pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Ithaca, NY

LGBT Resource Center, Cornell University (3rd Floor, 626 Thurston), Monday December 1 – Resource Center Lounge in the Center for Intercultural Dialogue – All Day Looping Gallery Presentation

Ithaca College LGBT Center (953 Danby Road ithaca NY 14850) Monday December 1, Noon and 4 pm, Screening Events

Kansas City, MO

The Charlotte Street Foundation's Project Space Gallery (21 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64106), Monday December 1, 6pm, Screening Event with a presentation by Jonathan D. Barnett (Artist & Co-Founder, ACTUP Kansas City) (website)

Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Contemporary Art (250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles CA 90012), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event co-presented with Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, with a post-screening discussion led by author Alex Juhasz (website)

Loyola Marymount University (1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045), Thursday December 4, 12:15 p.m., Screening Event for faculty, staff and students in the Office of LGBT Student Services.

Lincoln, NE

Sheldon Museum of Art in conjunction with the GBTQA+ Resource Center at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, 451 N. 12th Street, Lincoln, NE), Tuesday December 2, 5:30pm, Screening Event

Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival @ Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (4th Floor Screening Room, MIAD, 273 E. Erie, Milwaukee, WI 53202), Monday, December 1, 7pm, Screening Event

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1934 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38104), Thursday December 4, 10am–8pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

Montreal, Canada

Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University (3487 Peel St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1W7), December 5, 12:30 pm-4:30 pm, Looping Presentation.

New Haven, CN

Yale University (Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 102, New Haven, CT 06520), Monday December 1, 8:30pm, Screening Event.

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Wellness Center (507 Frenchman Street, New Orleans, LA 70116), Monday, December 1, 7:30 PM, Screening with a post-screening discussion (website)

Orange, CA

Chapman University (Argyros Forum 119A, One University Drive Orange, CA 92866), Tuesday December 2, 2pm, Screening Event in a room where 5 panels of the Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed.

Peterborough, Canada

ARTSPACE (378 Aylmer St. N, Peterborough ON, K9H 3V8), Wednesday December 3, 7pm, Screening Event presented with Trent Film Society and Peterborough AIDS Resource Network (PARN).

Pittsburgh, PA

The Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212), Sunday, November 30, 10–5pm, Looping Presentation in theater (website)

Philadelphia, PA

LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA), Monday December 1, 6pm, Screening Event

Portland, ME

Zero Station (222 Anderson St, Portland, ME 04101), December 5, 7 PM, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion and performance by artist Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger

Portland, OR

Pacific Northwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St, Portland, OR 97209), Monday December 1, 12:30pm, Screening Event in the Commons

Portland State University Smith Memorial Union (1825 SW Broadway Ste. 333, Portland OR 97201), Monday December 1, 12pm, HIV/AIDS Timeline Activity followed by Screening Event

Providence, RI

AS220 (95 Empire Black Box, Providence, RI), Monday December 1, 8pm, Screening Event presented by Headmaster Magazine (website)

San Francisco, CA

Center for Sex and Culture (1349 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103), Sunday November 30, 2 pm, Screening + Reading with Carol Queen, Patrick Mulcahey, Buzz Bense + archive materials on display (website)

Magnet (Gay/Bi Men’s Health Clinic in the Castro | 4122 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114), Monday December 1, 10–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Blvd, St Louis, MO 63108), Friday December 5, 7:00 pm, Screening Event in the mezzanine (website)

Toronto, Canada

V-tape (401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto, Ontario), Monday December 1, Screenings at noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, Limited seating RSVP your preferred time to info@vtape.org (website)

Valencia, CA

CalArts (Bijou Theatre, Valencia, CA 91355), Monday December 1, 1pm. Screening Event and discussion (website)

Virginia Beach, VA

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (2200 Parks Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event, Price Auditorium. Exhibitions are also free and open to the public from 5-9pm for this event. (website)

Washington, D.C.

Transformer (1404 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005), Monday December 1, Noon–Midnight, Storefront Looping Presentation