STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

For the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.

The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades.

The hour-long video program will premiere on Sunday, December 1, 2019, World AIDS Day — see below for a screening near you.

In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. More than 800 arts organizations, museums and galleries participated by shrouding artworks and replacing them with information about HIV and safer sex, locking their doors or dimming their lights, and producing exhibitions, programs, readings, memorials, rituals, and performances. Every year since, Visual AIDS has coordinated and publicized events on December 1, World AIDS Day, to highlight the ongoing epidemic.

In 1998, Day Without Art became Day With(out) Art, the parentheses encouraging the inclusion of programming about the AIDS pandemic and work by artists living with HIV. Thirty years on, STILL BEGINNING recognizes the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.

Visual AIDS partners with museums, galleries, universities, and organizations around the world to present over 100 free screenings on/around December 1.

*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning (2019) was recently exhibited as part of "I Wanna Be Well," a retrospective curated by Stephanie Snyder for the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College and the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here.

Visual AIDS Marquee Screenings:

★ World AIDS Day, December 1: Whitney Museum of American Art, 3pm, screening followed by a conversation with Shanti Avirgan, Viva Ruiz, and Jack Waters, moderated by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Kyle Croft. (RSVP) (FB)

★ December 5: MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Nguyen Tan Hoang and Iman Shervington, moderated by Pato Hebert.

★ December 7: Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays in partnership with The Studio Museum in Harlem, 6pm, screening followed by a conversation with Iman Shervington and Derrick Woods-Morrow, moderated by Mathew Rodriguez. (FB)

★ December 13: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Carl George, Patric McCoy, and Derrick Woods-Morrow, moderated by curator Risa Puleo. (RSVP) (FB)

If you’re interested in screening this year’s Day With(out) Art video program, please contact Kyle Croft, Programs Manager, at kcroft@visualaids.org. There is no cost to participate.

SCREENING LOCATIONS:

Key:

★ – Visual AIDS screenings with artist talkbacks
⬥ – Partner screenings with artist talkbacks

U.S. Screenings:

New York

★ Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014), December 1, 3pm, screening followed by a conversation with Shanti Avirgan, Viva Ruiz, and Jack Waters, moderated by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Kyle Croft. (RSVP) (fb)

★ Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays in partnership with The Studio Museum in Harlem (200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238), December 7, 6pm, screening followed by a conversation with Iman Shervington and Derrick Woods-Morrow, moderated by Mathew Rodriguez. (fb)

New Museum (Theater, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002), December 1, 11am–6pm, screenings at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. (link) (fb)

Queens Museum (Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368), December 1, 3pm-5pm, looping presentation. Still Beginning will be screened in a looping presentation from 3-5pm in the QM Theater and a tour of Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign will be led by Assistant Curator for Public Programs, Lindsey Berfond, at 4pm.(link)

Museum of Arts and Design (The Theater at MAD, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY 10019), December 1, 1pm, looping presentation. (link)

Grey Art Gallery, New York University (Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003), December 3, 11am–6pm, looping presentation.

Leslie-Lohman Museum (Living Room Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013), December 1, 4-8, 12–6pm, looping presentation. (link)

The LGBT Community Center (The LGBT Community Center, Room 101, 208 West 13th Street, New York , NY 10011), December 1, 2–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Room 12, 721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003), December 1–2, looping presentation.

Edie Windsor SAGE Center (15th Floor, 305 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10001), December 2, 3:30pm, screening event. Only open to folks who are 60 or over.

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (33 Garden Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504), December 1, 2pm, screening event. Additional screening on December 4 at 12pm. (link)

LGBT Network (125 Kennedy Dr, Hauppauge, NY 11788), December 2, 7pm, looping presentation.

Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services (LGBT Resource Room, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850), December 2, 10am, looping presentation.

Everson Museum of Art (401 Harrison Street, Syracuse, NY 13202), December 1–31, W, F, Su 12–5pm, Th 12–8pm, Sa 10am–5pm, looping presentation. Through December STILL BEGINNING is screened in conjunction with our yearlong exhibition, Video In America.

California

★ MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012), December 5, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Nguyen Tan Hoang and Iman Shervington, moderated by Pato Hebert.

Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024), December 1, 11am–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1717 East 7th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021), December 1, 11am-6pm, looping presentation. (link)

Pandemonium Press (Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch, Community Room, 3rd floor, 2090 Kitteridge, Berkeley, CA 94501), December 1, 2pm, screening event. Screening will take place in conjunction with the celebration and reading on the release of the 2019 Thirtieth Anniversary Special Edition of the online and print literary journal Day Without Art. Authors published in Day Without Art will read poetry, essay, memoir, and fiction. (link)

Aggregate Space Gallery (Warehouse 416, 416 26th St, Oakland, CA 94612), December 1, 2–5pm, looping presentation. (fb)

California College of the Arts and Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley co-presentation (Nahl Hall | California College of the Arts, Oakland campus, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618), December 3, 7:15pm, screening event. (link)

Mills College Art Museum (Danforth Lecture Hall, 5000 Macarthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613), December 4, 7pm, screening event. The screening will be followed by a presentation on the legacy and impact of AIDS activism by queer video artist and Mills professor Samara Halperin and a reading by Ellis Martin, Mills alum and editor of the recent book We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. (link) (fb)

GLBT Historical Society (4127 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114), December 12, 7pm, screening event. (RSVP) (fb)

LYRIC (1st floor, 127 Collingwood Street, San Francisco, CA 94103), December 2, 4pm, screening event. Event for youth 24 and under. Free food provided.

SFMOMA's Open Space (openspace.sfmoma.org), December 1, 24hours, online looping presentation.

Palm Springs Museum of Art (Lecture Hall, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262), December 5, 6pm, screening event. (link)

⬥ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1100 & 1001 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101), December 1, 11am–5pm, looping presentation. At 1pm, artist Nguyen Tan Hoang will lead a conversation about his film, I Remember Dancing. (link) (fb)

⬥ University of California, San Diego (Literature Building, Room 155, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093), December 2, 12pm, screening event with artists Nguyen Tan Hoang and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

Colorado

MSU Denver (Tivoli Student Union, Multicultural Lounge, 900 Auraria Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204), December 2, 2pm, screening event.

Hexus Collective (The Temple, 3rd floor, 2400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80205), November 30, 3pm, screening event. Screening will occur as part of the exhibition Altar(er) Hex and in collaboration with Hexus Collective.

Connecticut

Real Art Ways (Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106), December 1, 3:30pm, screening event. Post screening discussion organized in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. (link) (fb)

⬥ Yale University Art Gallery (Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510), December 5, 5:30pm, screening event. A panel discussion follows the screening, including featured artist Viva Ruiz in conversation with Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, and Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies; and Alex Fialho, Ph.D. student in the History of Art and African American Studies. (link)

Florida

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (10975 SW 17 St, Miami , FL 33199), December 5, 3-6pm, looping presentation. Videos on loop during our Miami Art Week student engagement event, Art Pop, where we will be highlighting Miami's queer youth/creatives. This program is in part with our exhibition Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989.

Florida Department of Health in Leon County (Bill Fagen Room/ Floor 1, 1515 Old Bainbridge Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303), November 27, 9am-4pm, looping presentation.

The Box Gallery (Rolando Chang Barrero, 811B Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33405), December 1, 3pm–9pm, looping presentation. HIV Testing and PrEP info at The Box Gallery and outdoor BBQ at Roosters next door. (RSVP) (fb)

World AIDS Museum and Educational Center (World AIDS Museum and Educational Center, 1201 NE 26 Street, #111, Wilton Manors, FL 33305), December 1, 3–6pm, looping presentation with cocktail reception. The event is followed by participation in the World AIDS Day Vigil and Remembrance Walk. (fb)

Illinois

★ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611), December 13, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Carl George, Patric McCoy, and Derrick Woods-Morrow, moderated by curator Risa Puleo. (link) (RSVP)

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820), December 2–23, M-F 9am–5pm, Sat 10am–4pm, Thursdays until 9 pm when classes are in session, looping presentation. (link)

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Stage 5, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801), December 2, 9am–3:30pm, looping presentation. (link)

International Museum of Surgical Science (International Museum of Surgical Science, 4th Floor, 1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610), December 1-31, M–F 9:30am–5pm, Sa/Su 10am–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 7th Floor, 33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603), December 5, 4:15pm, screening event. (fb)

University Galleries of Illinois State University (11 Uptown Circle, Normal, IL 61761), 43801, M-Th 9:30am-5pm, F 9:30-8pm, Sa/Su 12-4pm, looping presentation. Screening will take place in the same gallery as Eric Anthony Berdis' solo exhibition Don't let them clip your tiny little insect wings. Comprised of elaborate sculptures, quilted fabric collages, and a large-scale wallpaper installation, this exhibition memorializes LGBTQ+ people who persevered in the past, while acknowledging those who persist today. (fb)

Iowa

Figge Art Museum (Figge Art Museum, 225 West 2nd Street, Davenport, IA 52801), December 1, 1:30pm, screening event. (link)

PS1 - Public Space One (229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA 52245), December 8, 12–4pm, looping presentation. (link)

Kansas

Kansas State University (Leadership Studies Building, Room 127, 1300 Mid-Campus Drive N, Manhattan, KS 66506), December 5, 4pm, screening event. Discussion to follow, co-sponsored by the Department of English and the LGBT Resource Center. (link)

Kentucky

Speed Cinema at the Speed Art Museum (Speed Cinema, 2035 S. 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40208), December 1, 1pm, screening event. (link)

Louisiana

LSU Museum of Art (3rd Floor, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70806), December 1, 2pm, screening event. (link)

⬥ New Orleans Museum of Art (1st Floor, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA 70124), December 1, 2pm, screening event. A panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Williams, NOMA’s Public Programs Manager, will follow the screening featuring Sian Green and Angie Brown, members of the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, a national non-profit health organization based in New Orleans. Green and Brown are both featured in the video I’m Still Me by Iman Shervington. (link) (fb)

Newcomb Art Museum & Carolyn Barber-Pierre Center for Intercultural Life (Freeman Auditorium, Rm 205, 2nd floor, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118), December 3, 7pm, screening event. (link)

Maine

Maine Center for Electronic Music in partnership with Frannie Peabody Center (Candy's, 34 Portland St, Portland, ME 04101), November 30, 7pm, screening event.

Massachusetts

Mead Art Museum (Mead Art Museum Video Room, 41 Quadrangle Drive, Amherst, MA 01002), December 1–7, Su,Tu,W,Th 9am–12am, F 9am–8pm, Sa 9am–5pm, looping presentation. Related panel conversation "Understanding the Cultural and Political Impact of HIV/AIDs through Art" organized in partnership with the Amherst College Stonewall Committee, the Queer Resource Center, the Smith College Museum of Art, and A Positive Place at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. (fb)

Harvard Art Museums (Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138), December 1, 11am–4pm, looping presentation. (link)

Maryland

The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland (1220B Stamp Student Union, 3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742), December 1–7, M–F 9am–6pm, Sat 10am–4pm, looping presentation in conjunction with Still Here: Art on HIV/AIDS, an exhibition of contemporary artwork on HIV/AIDS in dialogue with panels from The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt. (link)

Michigan

Spectrum Center Programming Board (North University Building, 1544, 1100 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109), December 5, 6pm, screening event followed by a panel of local AIDS experts from various fields to talk about the state of HIV/AIDS today.

⬥ College for Creative Studies / Department of Digital Filmmaking (Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium, Walter B. Ford II Building, first floor, 201 East Kirby, Detroit, MI 48126), December 3, 7pm, screening event followed by Q&A with artist Carl George.

Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (Fed Galleries, First Floor, Woodbridge N. Ferris Building, 17 Pearl Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503), December 3, 3:30pm, looping presentation. Second Screening Date: December 4, 11am-12:30pm.

Minnesota

Weisman Art Museum (Weisman Art Museum, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455), December 4, 10am–2pm, looping presentation. (link) (fb)

Missouri

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Contemporary Room / 2nd floor, 3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108), December 1, 10am–4pm, looping presentation. (link) (fb)

New Hampshire

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth (6 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755), December 1, 2pm, screening event. (link)

New Jersey

Art & Design, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (Lobby, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901), December 1-2, 9am–close, looping presentation. Student Health Safe Sex tabling event. (link)

North Carolina

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (FedEx Global Education Center, Auditorium, 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516), December 2, 6:30pm, screening event.

Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College (E. Craig Wall Academic Center at Davidson College, McKay Atrium, Concord Road, Davidson, NC 28035), December 2, 4:30pm, screening event. (link)

Elsewhere Museum (606 W. Elm St, Greensboro, NC 27403), December 1, 1pm, screening event. (link)

Ohio

Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design (60 Cleveland Ave (Entrance on E. Gay St.), Columbus, OH 43215), November 30–December 1, 12–6pm, looping presentation. (link)

Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus Museum of Art, Forum, 480 E. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215), December 1, 10am–5pm, looping presentation. Includes free general museum admission. Partner organizations are tabling in the Atrium, and tentatively providing additional information about local services, and bringing in artists living with HIV/AIDS to perform in between films.

Wexner Center for the Arts (1871 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210), December 1, 12pm–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

City of Kettering (Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive, Kettering, OH 45420), December 1, 12–5pm, looping presentation.

University of Toledo Department of ART, Center for The Visual Arts (Haigh Auditorium 0090, 620 Art Museum Drive, Toledo, OH 43620), December 1, 12pm, screening event.

Oregon

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (15 NE Hancock St., Portland, OR 97212), November 30, 12-4pm, looping presentation. Presented in conjunction with No Human Involved: The 5th Annual Sex Workers' Art Show.

Pennsylvania

Allentown Art Museum (Auditorium, 31 North Fifth Street, Allentown, PA 18101), December 1, 1pm, screening event. Accompanied by shrouding of Keith Haring sculpture, moment of silence, and presentation by Dr. Hoffman Terry of Lehigh Valley Hospital, Community Art Project with Artist Angel Suarez. (link) (fb)

F.A.C.T. - Fighting AIDS Continuously Together (Grace Episcopal Church, 108 N 5th St, Allentown, PA 18102), December 5, 6:30pm, screening event.

Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (118 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104), December 1, 11am, looping presentation. (link)

Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (118 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104), December 5, 5pm, screening event and conversation with filmmaker and activist Jean Carlomusto, unorthodox investigator of LGBT history and HIV/AIDS. (link)

The Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh , PA 15212), December 1, 10am–5pm, looping presentation accompanied by "Illumination," an installation by Jordan Eagles, as well as Allies for Health + Wellbeing of Pittsburgh. (link)

Puerto Rico

Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico (La 18 | Audiovisual Unit of the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico, 3rd Floor, Ave. Juan Ponce de León, esquina Ave. Roberto H. Todd Parada 18, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico 00910), December 5, 7pm, screening event. Screening followed by a conversation with Carmen Oquendo, José Correa Vigier and Félix Rodríguez Rosa, moderated by filmmaker and director of La 18, Glorimar Marrero Sánchez. (fb)

Texas

The Art Galleries at TCU (Moudy Building North, Room 132, 2805 S. University, Fort Worth, TX 76129), December 2, 1pm, screening event. (link)

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107), December 3, 6pm, screening event. Museum galleries and Cafe Modern bar open before the screening. (link)

Artpace San Antonio (445 N. Main Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78205), December 1, 12–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

Virginia

Virginia Commonwealth University (Institute for Contemporary Art, 601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220), December 4, 7pm, screening event. Followed by panel discussion with: Ari Loach (Health Brigade), Zakia McKensey (Nationz Foundation), and Diedre Speaks (Positive Women's Network). Co-organized by the ICA at VCU, the dept. of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and the dept. of Painting + Printmaking. Also looping all day on December 1.

Washington, D.C.

Eaton Hotel (1201 K St NW, Washington, D.C. 20005), December 3, 6pm, screening event. (RSVP)

Washington State

Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street, Bellingham, WA 98229), December 1, 5:15pm, screening event. Connected with our monthly queer film series The Queens' Vernacular. (link)

Scarlet Ibis Gallery (447 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA 98166), December 1, 10am–6pm, looping presentation. (fb)

First Peoples Multicultural, Trans & Queer Support Services - The Evergreen State College (Student Equity & Arts Lounge (SEAL), CAB 310, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA 98505), December 6, 6pm, screening event. All are welcome, refreshments will be provided and free HIV testing available courtesy of Pierce County AIDS Foundation.

Frye Museum + Northwest African American Museum (NAMM, 2300 S Massachusetts St, Seattle, WA 98144), December 1, 2pm, screening event.

Wisconsin

Chazen Museum of Art (Chazen Auditorium, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706), December 1, 2pm, screening event. (link) (fb)

The Wrong Whole (Cactus Club, 2496 S. Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207), December 11, 7pm, screening event. (link)

International Screenings:

Brazil

Coletivo Amem (Sesc Avenida Paulista, Terreo, Avenida Paulista, 119, São Paulo, Brazil 01311-903), December 4, 8pm, screening event. Screening followed by a panel with Neon Cunha, Aline Ferreira and Celso Monteiro, moderated by Flip Couto. (link) (fb)

Canada

Esker Foundation (4th Floor, 1011 9th Ave. SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G0H7), December 1, 11am-6pm, looping presentation.

Calgary Institute for the Humanities (University of Calgary, Social Sciences 203, 618 Campus Place, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4V8), November 29, 3pm, screening event. Reception and discussion to follow. (link)

Art Gallery of Alberta (Ledcor Theatre, L1, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J2C1), December 5, 6pm, screening event. (link) (fb)

HIV Edmonton (The Pride Centre of Edmonton, 2nd floor, 10618 105 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5H 0L2), December 1, 5pm, screening event. Light refreshments provided. (fb)

Victoria Arts Council (Deluge Contemporary Art, 2nd floor, 636 Yates Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8T 4R4), December 1, 7:30pm, screening event. (link)

AIDS Action Now, Vtape, Archive/Counter Archive (Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto, Canada M5V 1X3), December 1, 3pm, screening event. Includes 3 additional videos by local artists (Alison Duke, Phillip Pike, Andrew Zealley) plus panel discussion chaired by Darien Taylor. (link)

Video Pool Media Arts Centre (221, 100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1H3), December 6, 7pm, screening presentation. Looping presentations through December 20 during gallery hours: 12–5pm, W–Sa. Co-presented with Nine Circles Community Health Centre. (link) (fb)

⬥ Artcite Inc. (Multimedia Room, Alan Wildeman Building, School of Creative Art Windsor, 1 Freedom Way, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9A 5P4), December 1, 1pm, screening event followed by Q&A with artist Carl George. (fb)

France

What's Your Flavor? (Le Hang'art, 61-63, Quai de la Seine, Paris, France 75019), December 1, 7:30pm, screening event. (fb)

Germany

Schwules Museum Berlin (Cafe, Lützowstrasse 73, Berlin, Germany 10785), December 1, 6pm, screening event. The screening will be followed by a discussion with scholar João Florêncio (University of Exeter) and Ben Miller (Schwules Museum). Dr. João Florêncio is Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.

Stäedelschule (Film Kitchen, Duererstrasse 10, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany 60596), December 5, 3pm, screening event.

Greece

AMOQA | Athens Museum Of Queer Arts (5th Floor, 14, Patision Str., Athens, Greece 10677), December 1, 7pm, screening event. (link) (fb)

Ireland

The Metropolitan Complex (Studio 11 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Studio 11, 1st Floor, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland), December 1, 7pm, screening event. (link) (fb)

The Golden Thread Gallery (84-94 Great Patrick St, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT1 2LU), November 30, 11am, looping presentation. The screening is linked to the exhibition Radical Intimacies, and in particular, to the work Journal of the Plague Year (1984, 40mins 30 secs) - Stuart Marshall’s response to the homophobic AIDS reporting in the English tabloid press.

Italy

Palermo Pride (I Candelai, Via dei Candelai, 65, Palermo, Italy 90134), November 28, 6pm, screening event. Followed by a discussion on HIV/AIDS in Sicily and Italy. Part of Palermo Pride Village 2019 – a 10 day program of cultural events to coincide with the Transgender Day of Remembrance (20 November) and World AIDS Day (1 December). [N.B. screening in English with English subtitles; discussion in Italian.] (link) (fb)

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Proiezione seguita da una conversazione su HIV/AIDS in Sicilia e Italia. L'evento si inserisce nel Palermo Pride Village 2019 - un programma di eventi culturali che dura 10 giorni, dal Transgender Day of Remembrance (20 Novembre) alla Giornata Mondiale contro l'AIDS (1 Dicembre). [N.B. La proieizione sara' in Inglese coi sottotitoli in Inglese. La conversazione avra' luogo in Italiano]

Pride Records (Ralph Hall, 1, Loc.Casa Vedetta 1, Verona, Italy 37069), December 1, 10am, screening event.

Japan

Normal Screen (Totsuka Regional Center, 7th Floor, Takadanobaba 2-18-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan), December 9, 7:30pm, screening event. Part of Tokyo AIDS Weeks 2019. (link)

Mexico

Tlaxcala Television (Local television screening, Tlaxcala, Mexico), November 28, 9pm, screening event. Additional screening December 1, 9pm.

Integral Services and Attention for People Living with HIV (General Hospital of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico), November 29, 9pm, screening event. Special screening for the medical staff. Additional screening and workshop for folks living with HIV on December 4 at 10am.

Netherlands

Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht, Netherlands 3512 PA), December 2–6, 12–6pm, looping presentation.

Poland

Galeria Miejska Arsenał (Galeria Miejska Arsenał, ul.Stary Rynek 6, Poznan, Poland 61 772), November 30, 5pm, screening event followed by a discussion on HIV/AIDS in Poland. The event is a part of the exhibition Creative Sick States: AIDS, CANCER, HIV (8 Nov, 2019 till 12 Jan, 2020). (link)

Spain

MACBA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA Auditorium, Plaça dels Àngels 1, Barcelona, Barcelona 08001), December 1, 7pm, looping presentation. (link)

Sweden

Noaks Ark Göteborg och Västra Götaland (Kungsgatan 4, Göteborg, Sweden 411 19), December 1, 4pm, screening event. (link)

Switzerland

Shedhalle Zürich (Seestrasse 395, Zurich, Switzerland 8038), December 1–January 5, 2020, W–F 2–8pm, Sa/Su 12–8pm, looping presentation. (link)

Taiwan

Taiwan HivStory Association (Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, MOCA Activity Hall, NO.39 Chang-An West Road, Taipei, Taiwan 103), December 1, 1pm, screening event. The Day Without Art screening and talk will be part of our closing event for the exhibition Interminable Prescriptions for the Plague.

Turkey

Pera Museum (Pera Museum Auditorium, Mesrutiyet Caddesi No:65, Istanbul, Turkey 34430), December 1, 7pm, screening event. Second screening: December 6, 9pm (link) (fb)

United Kingdom

The Bower (Brunswick Park, Camberwell, London SE5 7RH), December 1, screenings at noon, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. (link)

Superbia (CULTUREPLEX, Cinema, Ground Floor, Warehouse, Ducie Street, Manchester, United Kingdom M1 2TP), December 1, 4pm, screening event. Followed by Reading the Epidemic, a recital event. (link)

Newcastle University (Fine Art Lecture Theatre, King Edward VII Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom), December 2, 5pm, screening event.

Video Synopses:

Shanti Avirgan, Beat Goes On



Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY. Cylar spoke clearly, frequently and with moral force about the struggles of people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City, many of whom were impoverished and struggling with multiple social and medical problems. His openness about his own drug use and the centrality of the fight against the criminalization of drugs for AIDS activism make Cylar's legacy especially resonant and relevant at this time. A fellow harm reduction activist recalls how "Keith moved from mixing with the government, to threatening the government, to beating the government—all in the space of five minutes." By resurfacing and weaving together archival media of Cylar's own words and actions, this video will endeavor to convey—in the space of about five minutes—some of the personal charisma, political savvy and fearlessness that characterized Cylar's advocacy.

Carl George, The Lie

The Lie is the latest in an ongoing series of short films by Carl George drawing on found footage and materials from the artist’s archive. Offering “ruminations on ruined nations,” the film aims to expose the links between war, AIDS, capitalism, and the persistent mythologies that bind them all.

Nguyen Tan Hoang, I Remember Dancing

I Remember Dancing brings together an intergenerational cast of "trans and queer gaysians" ruminating on the past and future of AIDS, activism, gay culture, love, and (un)safe sex. Inspired by Joe Brainard’s I Remember poems, these confessions illuminate perspectives of queer Asian communities often absent from whitewashed narratives of HIV and AIDS. Grief, regret, longing, risk, and pleasure surface as their memories and fantasies blur into one another.

Viva Ruiz, Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

Viva Ruiz invites transgender AIDS activist, artist, and beloved friend Chloe Dzubilo (1960–2011) to speak via never before seen Hi-8 footage filmed by Chloe's then-partner Kelly McGowan in the 1990s. The process triangulates mother (Chloe), lover (Kelly), and child (Viva) in a deliberate ritual to uplift the spirit and legacy of an ancestral teacher. Through artifacts from the moment when video first became accessible and before mobile phone cameras became ubiquitous, we witness Chloe declare herself and her sisters as leaders in art, advocacy and culture for evermore.

Iman Shervington, I'm Still Me

I'm Still Me explores how digital platforms have created community and connections for Sian, a Black woman living with HIV and navigating the stigma and misinformation that is prevalent in the American South. Through her blog, social media accounts and online video platforms, Sian connects with (predominately) heterosexual Black women that send her messages, ask questions, and share their experiences with stigma and fear, all the while creating community that may have previously only existed in the shadows.

Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, (eye, virus)

Through an experimental collage of video and pictographs, (eye, virus) explores how conversations around disclosure, stigma, and harm reduction shift across generations and from public to private realms. Combining street interviews with footage from a punk show and a mobile testing site, the video centers pleasure and community as it expands the conversation around HIV to include hepatitis C and the opioid epidemic. (eye, virus) extends from documentation of a 2017 public program titled AIDS OS Y Version 10.11.6, and is collaboratively produced with Nikki Sweet.

Derrick Woods-Morrow, Much handled things are always soft

Much handled things are always soft unearths the unwritten and undocumented histories of public sex culture in the south-side of Chicago. Through conversation with longterm survivor Patric McCoy, the film traces the height of activity in the 1970s, the downfall of cruising culture in the 1980s, and the prevailing summer heat, which continues to linger. Together, McCoy and Woods-Morrow reflect on their relationship to cruising, to photography, and to each other; attempting to bridge the gap between what was, and what still remains to be explored.

Artist Biographies

Shanti Avirgan is a documentary producer and archival researcher who has worked on several films related to the AIDS crisis including Pills Profits Protest (2004); Sex in an Epidemic (2009); Larry Kramer in Love & Anger (2015); 5B (2019) and a forthcoming film about the photographer Peter Hujar. She was a producer for National Geographic's climate change TV series Years of Living Dangerously and associate producer for the feature documentaries The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014) and Life, Animated (2016). Shanti is currently producing Jean Carlomusto's new film Esther Newton Made Me Gay (2020) and working as an archival producer for a new Netflix comedy series and a documentary series for HBO. Shanti holds degrees in Latin American studies, medical anthropology and documentary filmmaking from UT Austin and NYU and was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil at the Federal University of Bahia. She grew up in Tanzania and Costa Rica and has lived in Brooklyn since 1999.

Carl George is an artist and activist working in experimental film, painting and collage. His short experimental films have shown in festivals internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Guggenheim Museum and the New York Public Library. His 1989 film DHPG Mon Amour, documenting the radical advances made by people with AIDS in developing their own health care, is a classic of AIDS activist filmmaking and was incorporated into the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague (2012). His visual art can be seen on the Visual AIDS Artist Registry.

Nguyen Tan Hoang is a videomaker and film and media scholar. His short experimental videos include K.I.P, Forever Bottom!, PIRATED! and look_im_azn. He is the author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Duke UP, 2014) and articles on porn pedagogy and Southeast Asian queer cinema. He teaches literature, film, and cultural studies at UC San Diego.

Viva Ruiz is the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and a community and nightlife-educated advocate and artist born and based in New York City. The throughline of her work across mediums is a passion to dismantle white supremacy and exorcise the colonial/colonized mindset. In 2017, she programmed sex education and practical spirituality workshops as an invited curator for the New Museum’s "Scamming the Patriarchy" youth summit. Her 2019 solo exhibition “ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God For Abortion Introspective” at PARTICIPANT, INC included work related to the multimedia abortion de-stigmatization experiment THANK GOD FOR ABORTION.

Iman Shervington is the Director of Media & Communications at the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES), a public health non-profit. Through IWES, Iman has utilized her script development, cinematography, directing, producing, and editing skills to create over 50 short films and PSAs, a web-series, a feature-length documentary, two feature-length narrative films and an award-winning podcast. In 2016, Iman was chosen as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader to promote a culture of health in New Orleans and she received the award as a "Changemaker" in the New Orleans-based Millennial Awards. Outside of film, Iman specializes in social marketing, social media management, graphic design, photography, positive youth development, participatory action research, and media literacy.

Victor F. M. Torres is an intermedia artist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Torres holds an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts and a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is an Adjunct Faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Torres has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Stevenson University, George Mason University, and UMBC. He is the author of Language Writes Myth Writes Reality: Or How Does the Acculturated Body Take the Role of Culture Maker?. Torres’ sculptural work snapshots the relationship between information retention, capacitive touch, and bronze age aesthetics, thinning the threshold between primitivism and futurism. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Monmouth Museum, MIX NYC, Maryland Art Place, and Grace Exhibition Space, among others.

Jack Waters is a visual artist, film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer. Jack’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the New York and London Film Makers Cooperatives, Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, and Anthology Film Archives. With his partner Peter Cramer, Jack co-directed ABC No Rio from 1983–1991 and founded the non-profit arts umbrella Allied Productions, Inc., as well as the community art garden Le Petit Versailles. The first part of Jack’s musical opus Pestilence will premiere at LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in Spring 2020. His visual art can be seen on the Visual AIDS Artist Registry.

Derrick Woods-Morrow’s work is a meditation on deviation and disruption. Currently based in Chicago, his artistic practice deploys a wide variety of media, including photographic transfers, digital video collage, ceramics, and narrative performance. Exploring modes of representation, he salvages, displaces, and removes raw material from sites of historical significance and trauma, reimagines their future purpose and denies their perceived function, while actively interrogating the correlation between labor and play. A recipient of the 2018 Artadia Award, Derrick received his MFA in Photography from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, and was most recently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography and Teaching Artist at the University of Illinois Chicago. His work appeared in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, in collaboration with Paul Mpagi Sepuya and his recent works were shown at YNCI V: Detroit Art Week Expo, in a solo exhibition curated by Darryl Terrell.