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Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS
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Date:
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 11:30pm–11:59pm
Visual AIDS Event
Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS
For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presented TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Charan Singh (India/UK), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).
The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of the global AIDS epidemic, but provides a platform for a diversity of voices from beyond the United States, offering insight into the divergent and overlapping experiences of people living with HIV around the world today. The six commissioned videos cover a broad range of subjects, such as the erasure of women living with HIV in South America, ineffective Western public health campaigns in India, and the realities of stigma and disclosure for young people in Uganda.
As the world continues to adapt to living with a new virus, COVID-19, these videos offered an opportunity to reflect on the resonances and differences between the two epidemics and their uneven distribution across geography, race, and gender.
See below for information on screenings of TRANSMISSIONS around the world, both online and in-person.
To view the video program online, head to visualaids.org/transmissions.
English, French, Greek, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, and Polish subtitles are available.
Visual AIDS Online Premiere
★ Monday, November 30, 6pm: Livestream screening event followed by a conversation with all six commissioned artists, moderated by Jih-Fei Cheng. Presented in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and with support from 50+ additional institutions listed below.
Additional Screening Locations:
Key
★: Online or in-person screening event
●: Supporting Visual AIDS' premiere event
U.S. Screenings:
New York
Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014), Nov 30, 6pm, co-presenting Visual AIDS online premiere event.
The Studio Museum in Harlem (144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027), Nov 30, 6pm, co-presenting Visual AIDS online premiere event.
New Museum (Theater / Lower Level, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002), December 1, 12–5pm, looping presentation. (link)
Museum of Arts and Design (2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019), publicizing the program online.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (26 Wooster Street, New York, New York 10013), publicizing the program online.
Queens Museum (New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368), publicizing the program online.
The LGBT Community Center (208 W 13th Street , New York, NY 10011), publicizing the program online.
Grey Art Gallery, New York University (100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003), publicizing the program online.
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY 10011), publicizing the program online.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts (721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003), publicizing the program online.
CCS Bard (33 Garden Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504), December 4, 11am, online discussion with artist, filmmaker, and activist George Stanley Nsamba on Zoom. (link) (rsvp)
Light Work (316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210), publicizing the program online.
University Museums, Colgate University (13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346), publicizing the program online.
Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services (953 Danby Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850), publicizing the program online.
Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY 14607), online streaming presentation beginning December 1. Starting November 30, we will present a selection of short films and video from the VSW Archives inspired by the AIDS epidemic. (link)
Rockland County Pride Center (28 South Franklin, Nyack, NY 10960), publicizing the program online.
California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012), Nov 30, 6pm, co-presenting Visual AIDS online premiere event.
LA LGBT Center - Senior Services (1118 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038), December 1, time TBA, online event. (link)
Arts Research Center (UC Berkeley/Arts Research Center, Berkeley, CA 94720), publicizing the program online.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1100 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101), publicizing the program online. As part of our Friday Film Series, MCASD presents Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied on November 27, at 5:00 PM PST. This experimental documentary combines poetry, performance, and first-person narrative into a frenetic and uninhibited expression of Black gay identity. This month’s film is presented in anticipation of Day With(out) Art on December 1. (link)
ArtPower at UC San Diego (9500 Gilman Drive MC0029, La Jolla CA 92103, La Jolla / San Diego, CA 92103), December 1, 7pm, online event. Followed by activities organized by Students for Global Health, Expanding Visions of Health. (link)
Queer Resource Center of The Claremont Colleges (395 E. 6th Street, Claremont, CA 91711), publicizing the program online.
SFMOMA's Open Space (openspace.sfmoma.org / 151 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94103), screening the program online at openspace.sfmoma.org
Colorado
University of Denver, Vicki Myhren Gallery (University of Denver, Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80210), December 1, 5pm, online event. The gallery will also host a filmed performance and lecture by artist Michael A. Espinoza throughout the week of Dec. 1, 2020. (link)
Connecticut
Real Art Ways (56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106), December 3, 7pm, community conversation via Zoom featuring Heather Harris (Clinician, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England) and Shawn Lang (Associate Chief Executive, AIDS CT). Moderated by Real Art Ways’ Visual Arts Manager Neil Daigle Orians, the community is invited to join a conversation discussing how HIV and AIDS impacts Connecticut, using “TRANSMISSIONS” as a starting point for a local perspective. Registration for this event is required. (RSVP)
Florida
The Box Gallery (811B Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33405), December 1, 8pm, screening event. Videos will continue playing on loop for two weeks. (fb)
Florida Department of Health - Leon (872 W. Orange Ave., Tallahassee, Florida 32310), publicizing the program online.
Georgia
Telfair Museums (Neises Auditorium, 207 W. York St., Savannah, GA 31401), November 30–December 6, 10am–5pm, looping presentation.
Illinois
Krannert Art Museum (Krannert Art Museum, KAM 62, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820), December 1–5, 10am–4pm, publicizing the program online. Registered Student Organizations Sexual Health Peers and DREAM@UIUC will participate in a virtual screening and discussion to analyze the ways in which TRANSMISSIONS grapples with issues of both sexuality and disability. A member from each student group will publish a written response to TRANSMISSIONS which will be available to view Krannert Art Museum's website. (link)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries (33 E. Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602), publicizing the program online.
University Galleries (11 Uptown Circle, Normal, IL 61761), publicizing the program online.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611), publicizing the program online.
Chicago Artists Coalition (2130 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612), publicizing the program online.
Iowa
Public Space One (229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA 52245), publicizing the program online.
Louisiana
Newcomb Art Museum (6823 St. Charles Ave., Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA 70118), December 1 and 8, 12pm, online event.
Maryland
Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland (3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742), publicizing the program online.
Massachusetts
Harvard Art Museums (32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138), publicizing the program online.
Mead Art Museum (41 Quadrangle Drive, Amherst, MA 01002), publicizing the program online.
Smith College Museum of Art (20 Elm St., Northampton, MA 01060, Northampton, MA 01063), publicizing the program online.
Michigan
Spectrum Center Programming Board at University of Michigan (530 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1308 Suite 3020, Ann Arbor, MI 48103), December 1, online event. (link)
Kendall College of Art and Design and Ferris State University LGBTQ+ Resource Center (17 Fountain Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503), publicizing the program online.
Minnesota
Weisman Art Museum (333 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455), publicizing the program online.
Mississippi
Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (The SPOT (Safe Place Over Time), Suite 3110, CARE4ME Services, Jackson, MS 39213), December 1, 10am–5pm, looping presentation. (fb)
New Jersey
Rutgers University (33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901), December 1, 9am online screening event, followed by online panel at 7pm with Nelson Santos, Allen Frame, Dr. Perry N. Halkitis, and Donna Gustafson, moderated by Jeanine Oleson. (link) (rsvp)
New Mexico
University Art Museum and Gender & Sexuality Studies Gender Studies at NMSU (1308 E. University Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88005), publicizing the program online.
North Carolina
Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College (315 N. Main Street, Davidson, NC 28035), publicizing the program online.
Ackland Art Museum (UNC-Chapel Hill) (101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514), publicizing the program online.
Ohio
Rosewood Arts Centre (2655 Olson Drive, Kettering, OH 45420-1267), December 1, 9am–9pm, looping presentation. (link)
Stonewall Columbus (1160 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201-2411), December 1, 10am–5pm, looping presentation, online and in our building. (link)
Pennsylvania
Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104), publicizing the program online.
Lehigh University Pride Center for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity and the Lehigh University Art Galleries (27 Memorial Dr., Bethlehem, PA 18015), December 1, 9am–5pm, looping presentation with online viewing party and discussion at noon.
Freedman Gallery, Albright College (13th & Bern Streets, Reading, PA 19612), publicizing the program online.
The Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212), publicizing the program online.
Allentown Art Museum (31 North Fifth Street, Allentown, PA 18101), December 1, online event. The museum will observe Day With(out) Art through the shrouding of artwork and a moment of silence, an online conversation with Kay Haring, TRANSMISSIONS, and links to resources. (link) (fb)
Puerto Rico
Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (Avenida Roberto H. Todd, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907), publicizing the program online.
Rhode Island
RISD Museum (20 North Main Street, Providence, RI 02903), publicizing the program online.
Texas
Artpace San Antonio (Floor 1, 445 N Main, San Antonio, TX 78205), December 1–31, looping presentation during open hours: Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm; Sat, 12-5pm. (link)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107), December 1, 12pm, screening event. (link) (fb)
Texas Christian University (The Art Galleries at TCU, Fort Worth, TX 76129), publicizing the program online.
Dallas College - Eastfield Campus (3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite, TX 75150), publicizing the program online.
Utah
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (410 Campus Center Drive , Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0350), publicizing the program online.
Washington, D. C.
The Corner at Whitman-Walker (1377 R St NW, Washington, DC 20009), December 1, 6pm, screening event for Whitman-Walker staff, as well as publicizing the program online.
Georgetown University Art Galleries (3535 Prospect St. NW., Washington, DC 20007), publicizing the program online.
David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House and Archives at Walbridge (3229 Walbridge Pl, NW, Washington, DC 20010), publicizing the program online.
Washington State
Frye Art Museum (704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104), December 1, online event.
The Grand Cinema (606 Fawcett Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402), publicizing the program online.
Tacoma Art Museum (1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402), publicizing the program online.
Wisconsin
Chazen Museum of Art (800 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706), December 2, 5pm, online event. After the screening, join us for "Living with more than one Virus: A Conversation with Kang Seung Lee and Jill Casid on Art as a Praxis of Radical Care". The conversation amplifies and builds on the screening of TRANSMISSIONS. (rsvp) (fb)
Cactus Club, in collaboration with The Wrong Whole (2496 S. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207), December 1, 6pm, online event. (link)
International Screenings:
Canada
AIDS Action Now & Archive/Counter Archive (95 Shaw St., Toronto, Canada M6J2W3), November 30, 7pm, online event. (link)
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8), publicizing the program online.
Video Pool Media Arts Centre (300-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, Canada R3B1H3), publicizing the program online.
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave SE, Calgary, Canada T2G 3V3), publicizing the program online.
Victoria Arts Council (1800 Store Street, Victoria, BC V8T 4R4), publicizing the program online.
MAX Ottawa & Ottawa Queer Arts Collective Qu'ART (400 Cooper st. Suite 9004, Ottawa, Canada K2P 2H8), publicizing the program online.
Moving Image Research Lab, McGill University (853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0G5, Montreal, QC, Canada ), publicizing the program online.
Ecuador
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (Montevideo y Luis Dávila, Quito, Ecuador 170130), Thursday–Sunday from December 3-13, 11am–4pm, looping presentation. Detailed schedule and RSVP available on the CAC website. (link) (RSVP) (fb)
France
Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research (9 esplanade Pierre Nidal-Naquet 75013 Paris, Paris, France 75013), December 1, 7pm, screening event. Followed by a discussion with Elisabeth Lebovici, Stéphane Gérard and Gaëtan Thomas (link)
Germany
Village.Berlin (Village.Berlin, Kurfürstenstr. 31/32, Berlin, Berlin 10785), December 1, online event.
Schwules Museum Berlin (Lützowstraße 73, Berlin, Germany), publicizing the program online.
Staedelschule (Duererstraße 10, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60596), publicizing the program online.
Greece
Athens Museum Of Queer Arts (Metsovou 1, Athens, Greece 106 82), publicizing the program online.
Japan
Normal Screen (Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 10026), December 11, 8pm, online event. (link)
Mexico
Salón Silicón (Minería 60, Escandon, CDMX, México), publicizing the program online.
Health Frontiers in Tijuana HFiT Fronteras Saludables, A.C. (Desayunador Salesiano "Padre Chava", Av. Via de la juventud OTE #8800-705, Colonia Zona Urbana Rio Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico 22010), December 5, 1pm, online event. We will do an in-person screening for a small group of people and broadcast the event and the movie online to our entire community.
Tlaxcala Televisión (Tlaxcala, Mexico), December 1, 9pm, television broadcast.
Colectivo Transexual de Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, Mexico), December 2, 6pm, screening event with Jorge Bordello.
Netherlands
Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht, NL), publicizing the program online.
Poland
Galeria Miejska Arsenał (Stary Rynek 6, Poznań, Poland 61-772), December 1, 6pm, online event. Presented in partnership with Światowy Dzień AIDS w Arsenale + Polskie EIDS. (link) (fb)
POLISH EIDS research platform (Biennale Warszawa, Mokotowska 29A, Warsaw, Polska 00-560), December 1, 6pm, online event (in partnership with Galeria Miejska Arsenał). POLISH EIDS invites everyone to take part in four days of events inspired by the title of Hervé Guibert’s cult book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. The slogan of HIV 2020 conference (an alternative to the AIDS 2020 conference) emphasizes the importance of the active participation of the community of people living with HIV. As POLISH EIDS, this year we would also like to draw attention to the activities of artists, activists and teams working in Poland which, in our opinion, change the culture of the conversation about HIV, focusing in their work primarily on the experiences of people living with HIV. We want to underline the role of friendship and shared reflection on the epidemic – the programme will feature an extraordinary event: streaming of the documentary “50/50”, unknown to the wider audience, and devoted to the memory of Krzysztof Nowiński, as well as access to the corresponding video work “Plus/Minus” by Karol Radziszewski. (link) (fb)
Spain
MACBA. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Plaça dels Àngels 1, Barcelona, España 08001), December 1, 7:30pm, screening event with Lucía Egaña. If health restrictions prevent an in-person program, it will be adapted to an online event. (link)
Turkey
Pera Museum (Mesrutiyet Caddesi No: 65, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey 34430), publicizing the program online.
United Kingdom
Superbia (Manchester Pride, Manchester One, 53 Portland Street, Manchester, United Kingdom M20 1LH), December 1 & 2, 12pm, online event. The films will be hosted on the Superbia website from Dec 1st. On the evening of Dec 2nd we will host an online discussion about the films alongside new work by artist Jordan Roberts. We will be joined by Jordan and theatre maker Nathaniel Hall and the event will be co-hosted by the Queer Artist Talking Circle. (link)
Queer Life Drawing/ Bareback Museum (Bareback Museum, Arebyte Studios, 14B Globe House, London City Island, London, United Kingdom E140LH), December 2, 7pm, online zoom event. (link)
Jorge Bordello, Ministry of Health
Ministry of Health employs the aesthetics of horror movies and silent film to evoke the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on four men living with HIV in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Gevi Dimitrakopoulou, This is Right; Zak, Life and After
This is Right: Zak, Life and After is a portrait of Zak Kostopoulos, a well-known queer AIDS activist who was publicly lynched to death in Athens in 2018. Zak's chosen family and community highlight Zak's activist life and the response that his murder has galvanized.
Las Indetectables, Me Cuido
Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization of people living with HIV in the context of Chile’s capitalist and neoliberal regime.
Lucia Egaña Rojas, Female Disappearance Syndrome
Lucia Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female disappearance syndrome”—the erasure of women living with HIV from conversations about the epidemic.
Charan Singh, They Called it Love, But Was it Love?
They Called it Love, But Was it Love? depicts scenes from the lives of kothis living in India. Reduced to a “risk group” by public health campaigns and misunderstood through Western notions of gender and sexuality, these protagonists have real lives and inhabit unique worlds with their own quests for fulfillment and love.
George Stanley Nsamba, Finding Purpose
Finding Purpose reflects on the experience of producing a film about the lives of teens born with HIV in Uganda and the pervasive stigma that surrounded the project.
Jorge Bordello is interested in the wrinkles between document and fiction, the family archive and the national history, the montage of the body and public life. He has a degree in International Relations from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) and studied Library Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was elected to study at the National Photo Library System and the Image Center at Mexico City, and has been a beneficiary of the Cultural Development and Co-Investment Program (FONCA 2011), Young Creators Grant (FONCA 2016), and the Municipal and Community Cultures Support Program (PACMyC 2015). His work has been a part of festivals such as ULTRAcinema, FICUNAM, The International Postporn Festival and Cinemaissí: Latinamerican Film Festival.
Gevi Dimitrakopoulou is a feminist visual artist and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. Her films primarily focus on gender identity, sexuality, queerness and the political inequalities of minorities. She is a published media scholar writing and speaking on technology and culture. She holds degrees in economics, film studies, and digital media.
Las Indetectables is a Chilean band led by Sofía Devenir and Noelia Shalá. With their friends and collaborators Macarena Rodríguez and Osvaldo Guzmán, they address topics such as HIV/AIDS, hate crimes, the experiences of sex workers and travesti, and the contradictions that occur when marginalized subjects stage political interventions in the street or on public transit.
Lucía Egaña Rojas is a Chilean artist who currently lives in Barcelona. Her work problematizes the relationship between high and low culture, high-tech and low-fi, public and private space, and the relationship between the global north and south. She studied visual arts in Chile and completed a master's degree in creative documentary and a PhD in post-pornography in Spain. She is currently teaching at the Independent Studies Program of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona while developing two research projects and producing embroidery, videos, and performances.
Charan Singh lives and works in New Delhi and London. Singh’s art practice is informed by HIV/AIDS work and community activism in India. He is a candidate for a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2016, he earned a Magnum/Photo London award for his portrait series “Kothis, Hijras, Giriyas and Others,” which was featured in the 2017 Photoworks Annual. He was a 2017 resident at the Fire Island Artist Residency. His latest book and exhibition (with Sunil Gupta), “Delhi: Communities of Belonging” was published by The New Press 2016 and exhibited at SepiaEye, New York in 2017. A later iteration, “Dissent and Desire” was shown at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, 2018 and also at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi, India in 2018–19.
George Stanley Nsamba is a filmmaker, spoken word artist, and human rights activist. In 2013, he founded The Ghetto Film Project to mentor and train youth in socially-engaged film production. Nsamba's films Time Irreversible (2017), The Dummy Team (2016), Silent Depression (2015), and Crafts: The Value of Life (2015) have screened throughout Africa and the United States.
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