Record Time

Record Time was a moving image program curated by Carmel Curtis and Leeroy Kun Young Kang for Visual AIDS.

Record Time was presented in conjunction with Visual AIDS' summer exhibition Altered After, curated by Conrad Ventur at Participant, Inc. It was recommended to visit Altered After at Participant, Inc down the street before arriving at Anthology for the screening.

Framing "record" as both subject and action, this program featured works spanning from 1989–2015 that question the function and expectations of a document in the context of HIV/AIDS. The artists included in this program challenged the way in which documents are commonly upheld as sources of objective meaning or authenticity by employing different methods of strategy. Through the use of hybrid elements of documentary, homage, found/appropriated footage, educational media, and performance, these seven film and video pieces extend the parameters of genres that are often found in HIV/AIDS media by centering empirical and sensorial evidence, both real and imagined.

From dramatized testimonies of women living with AIDS in Colin Campbell’s anomalous film, Skin (1990), to more contemporary works reflecting on the long-term effects of HIV/AIDS such as Hayat Hyatt’s kaleidoscopic Villanelle (2015), and the visceral experiments addressing visibility, illness, and sexual fantasy in Tran T. Kim-Trang’s Kore (1994, part of her “Blindness Series”), the selections offered alternate ways of looking at and sensing what a record records.

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Screening Program

Greg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Something Fierce (1989, 3:30 min, video)

Colin Campbell, Skin (1990, 18 min, 16mm)

Nguyen Tan Hoang, K.I.P. (2002, 4 min, video)

Hayat Hyatt, Villanelle (2015, 15:30 min, video)

Tran T. Kim-Trang, Kore (1994, 17 min, video)

Barbara Hammer, Vital Signs (1991, 10 min, 16mm)

Jim Hubbard, The Dance (1992, 8 min, 16mm)

Total running time: ca. 80 min.

The curators thank all of the artists, Conrad Ventur, David Evans Frantz, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Dani Heffernan, Karl McCool, Kyle Croft, and Jean Foos.

Anthology Film Archives listing here.

Carmel Curtis is a moving image archivist and curator. Over the past decade, she has been committed to increasing access to film and video by supporting viewing of diverse media to diverse audiences. Carmel currently works in the Moving Image Archive of Indiana University; is a board member of the non-profit Screen Slate, a daily resource for independent, repertory, and gallery screenings in New York City; and is a is a proud member of XFR Collective (pronounced transfer collective), a volunteer run group that works to increase community access to at-risk audiovisual media.

Leeroy Kun Young Kang is an archivist and film programmer based in Los Angeles. His work focuses on the intersections of audiovisual preservation and access, experimental film and video, and LGBTQ visual culture. He currently works in the Public Access Department of the Academy Film Archive and has had the privilege of working with diverse archival collections at several institutions including the New Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and MTV Networks. In 2016, Kang was a Fellow at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU from 2016-2019. His writing recently appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.