#daywithoutart

[amoqa]

Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me

8/12 Sunday/Κυριακή!

AMOQA is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. 

Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).

Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.”* Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deeper, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.

Video Synopses

Gian Cruz, Dear Kwong Chi

In Dear Kwong Chi, Cruz creates a video letter to the late artist Tseng Kwong Chi, drawing from the experience of living with HIV in diaspora. Across continents and decades, Kwong Chi’s legacy acts as an anchor for Cruz amongst limited representations of Asian narratives in AIDS histories.

Milko Delgado, El Club del SIDA

Taking its title from a sensational telenovela episode, El Club del SIDA cycles through a lifetime of heavily stigmatizing images about HIV and AIDS. Delgado plays with multiple aesthetics—documentary, horror, comedy—to explore the various relationships he has had with AIDS over the course of his life. 

Imani Harrington, Realms Remix

Through a collage of poetry and archival images, Realms Remix traces memories and sensations of an AIDS past that continue to haunt the present.

David Oscar Harvey, Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck tackles the disorienting experience of existing with a manageable condition that our present culture insists on representing in terms of its bleak past. Interested in figuring HIV differently, the film presents a series of visual puns merging the iconography of HIV and AIDS with popular symbols of luck. 

Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar, El VIH se enamoró de mi (HIV Fell in Love With Me)

HIV Fell in Love With Me tells the story of a woman with HIV embracing her sexuality and reconnecting with her pleasure. Filmed with an erotic aesthetic, the video reflects a pursuit towards sexual justice and autonomy for women living with HIV.

Nixie, it’s giving

Through home videos, archival footage and textile landscapes, it’s giving explores various forms of family across time. The artist's domestic life is paired with archival video of queer and trans chosen families mirroring small acts of joy, resistance, and sustenance. What does it mean for an HIV+ person, who carries the history and present of the AIDS-crisis in their DNA, to foster new life?

Vasilios Papapitsios, LUCID NIGHTMARE

Visual AIDS is a New York based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. visualaids.org

[sergenotary]

December 1st: Celebrating Diverse Observances

Today, December 1st, is a day filled with diverse observances, each with an important message.

World AIDS Day: Let's remember those lost and celebrate advancements in HIV research and treatment. #WorldAIDSDay

National Eat a Red Apple Day: Enjoy the health benefits and deliciousness of red apples. 🍎 #NationalEatAnAppleDay

National Bartender Day: Cheers to the talented individuals who craft our cocktails and create welcoming atmospheres. #NationalBartenderDay

Day Without Art: Reflect on the power of art and its impact on society, while remembering those lost to HIV/AIDS. #DayWithoutArt

Faux Fur Friday: Embrace the warmth and style of faux fur, a cruelty-free and sustainable alternative. #FauxFurFriday

National Christmas Lights Day: Let the holiday spirit shine bright with festive lights. ✨ #NationalChristmasLightsDay

Remember, each of these observances holds significance and invites us to reflect, celebrate, and take action. Let's spread awareness, show appreciation, and embrace the joy and diversity of December 1st.

[jamieroxxartist]

Today, Dec 1, 2024, is #WorldAIDSDay!

( https://nationaltoday.com/world-aids-day )

Today, Dec 1, 2024, is #DayWithoutArt!

( https://nationaltoday.com/day-without-art-day )

[harvardfineartslib]

December 1st is Day with(out) Art and World AIDS Day – an international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.

Contemporary art has played a very important role in AIDS awareness over the last three decades. Today, AIDS-related artwork reflects the inequalities, disparities between wealthy and poor, global north and south, stigma, prejudice, and homophobia that key populations face.

Image 1: Close-up image of the cover of “bearing witness (to AIDS)”

Image 2: Stacks of books (see below for records)

Image 3: Front endpapers of “Art AIDS America”: Photo mural designed for Art AIDS America at Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, by Alex Kostiw from archival materials researched collaboratively with Jon Neff.

Image 4: Back endpapers of “Art AIDS America”: “Chalk Column,” Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, 2017.

Bearing witness (to AIDS) McGovern, Thomas, 1957- New York, N.Y. : Visual AIDS : A.R.T. Press, c1999. HOLLIS number: 990082365370203941

Art AIDS America Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka ; Bill Arning [and twelve others]. Katz, Jonathan David [author] HOLLIS number: 990145294880203941

Art AIDS America Chicago Edited by Staci Boris ; with contributions by Christopher Audain [and 12 others]. Chicago : Alphawood Foundation, [2018] HOLLIS number: 99153752036003941

Pandemic : facing AIDS Essays by Kofi Annan ... [et al.] ; edited by Nan Richardson, Rory Kennedy. HOLLIS number: 990092418930203941

[foreverthesoniag]

“A reminder that Peter Staley, Larry Kramer + other @actupny heroes outlived both Reagan and Bush. Never forget those lost and why. AIDS is not over. Pictured: David Wojnarowicz at an AIDS demonstration, 1988.” - #Art and words by @houseofextravagarza #worldAIDSday #daywithoutart https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lLgR0lOgR/?igshid=1woo1dpqai5es

[queermtl]

December 2, 2022: Co-presented by Séro.Syndicat // Blood.Union - BUSS, @accmontreal and Queer Film Club, Day Without Art: Being & Belonging features works by HIV-positive artists and a Q&A with artist activists Camila Arce and @mkkultra. At Cinéma de Sève on the @concordiauniversity campus at 6:30 PM. Find this and many other Things to Do at the link in our bio. 🎥 #2slgbtq #lgbttravel #queercinema #daywithoutart #mtlmoments (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClqtVy0L_Os/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[uncwcabartgallery-blog]

Today, December 1, the Cultural Arts Building at UNCW joins museums, galleries, and arts institutions around the world to observe Day With(out) Art. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The first Day With(out) Art was organized by Visual AIDS* in 1989. Coinciding with World AIDS Day on December 1, it was a call for action and mourning that would draw attention to the devastating impact of AIDS on the arts community. Hundreds of museums and galleries participated in the one-day moratorium on exhibitions, shrouding works of art and replacing them with information about the virus. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thousands of arts institutions and organizations around the world continue to unite on December 1 to demonstrate the power of art to raise awareness about the AIDS crisis, which is far from over. Since the onset of the epidemic in the early 1980s, 79.3 million people worldwide have been infected and 36.3 million have died of AIDS. In 2020, 37.7 million people were living with HIV and 1.5 million were newly infected. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To recognize Day With(out) Art 2022, a symbolic piece of fabric has been installed over a mural in the lobby and the CAB Art Gallery lights will be dimmed for the day.   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Learn more about Day With(out) Art 2021 by visiting www.visualaids.org/blog/enduring-care  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ *Visual AIDS provides free services to HIV+ artists, including artist web pages, documentation of artwork, advocacy, exhibition opportunities and Artists Materials Grants, to empower artists to create. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #DayWithoutart2022 #daywithoutart #visualaids #cabartgallery #uncwartgallery #uncwculturalartsbuilding #uncw #uncwilmington #wilmingtonnc #gallery #art #exhibition (at CAB Art Gallery at UNCW) https://www.instagram.com/p/CloqJVFPqX6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[duvalart]

December 1 is traditionally Day Without Art to mark the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the artistic community. This year I am thinking of Phyllida Barlow speaking about the artists who make work yet, go unseen for years even decades and the agony of that, like the agony of the AIDS epidemic for so many years. Here: Frontier, Undercover and Tryst from Barlow. #daywithoutart #phyllidabarlow #artmatters https://www.instagram.com/p/ClojFXsJzKa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pilgrimartfoundation]

School children gather for World AIDS Day, Tompkins Square Park, New York City. @marciamarcusstudio #BeingAndBelonging @visual_aids #daywithoutart (at Tompkins Square Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CloQL53LeGd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[todaydailydaily-blog]

#Saturday #penandink #ink #illustration #handlettering #dailyart #dailydaily #calendar #art #easel #canvas #daywithoutart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq2cneIhDeJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1exlg96988djr

[renjitha-anoop-blog]

Flower painting using Filbert brush and round brush. Acrylic painting . . . #acrylicpainting #dailyuploads #paint #art #artist #creative #good #artwork #eveningart #artismylife #onestrokepainting #decorativepainting #nailart #flowerilllustration #flowerpaintings #deSerres #acrylicpainter #daywithoutart #nature #flowertattoo #colourfullart #collectors (at Canada Montréal)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today, Dec 1, 2023 is #WorldAIDSDay!

( https://nationaltoday.com/world-aids-day )

Today, Dec 1, 2023 is #DayWithoutArt!

( https://nationaltoday.com/day-without-art-day )

[hungrytigernyc]

Remember, #artSavesLives #PoetrySavesLives #WordsAreAGift thank you @janhyphenhenry for sharing this prom today. #WorldAIDSDay #daywithoutart (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQqawTjgR_/?igshid=w1y6vin38pbr

[thepenthousenq]

The Penthouse Present HIVideo by Balaclava.Q

Date: 1 Dec 2017 – World Aids Day

Time: 7-10.30pm (2 part event back to back with Visual Aids- see below). 

Venue:

The Penthouse at Paradise Works

Paradise Works (2nd floor)

East Phillip Street

Salford

M3 7LE

Donation entry:  £2 to George House Trust. (entry to both screenings).

Tickets: Free from Eventbrite (booking essential).  

This event is included in Manchester’s first Day With(out) Art programme from Superbia.

HIVideo is A Global Exhibition of Video Art for World Aids Day. HIVideo is the moving image strand of Balaclava.Q- an international Queer Art Project and collective, better known as TACTIC 2. HIVideo seeks to promote contemporary dialogue(s) on World Aids Day via video art from both a local and global perspective. HIVideo complements current discourse and the de- stigmatization / -criminalization movement by creating dialogue about HIV/AIDS via art -- and the attendant aesthetics and politics.

The 2016 programme is available to view on a newly launched Balaclava.Q YouTube channel here.

In 2016 HIVideo was screened at Manchester’s LGBT Foundation and worldwide across Toronto (Canada), Paris (France), South Africa, Puerto Rico, New Mexico and Oakland (California, US) in galleries, safe spaces and sexual health centres. In 2017 The Penthouse present HIVideo at their home Paradise Works on the Manchester > Salford border. HIVideo brings together international artists and venues across 5 continents to showcase art films which look at HIV/AIDS with the intention of a more direct action approach with a specific theme for artists. Films will be screened on World AIDS Day in Rome, (Italy), Manchester (UK), London (UK), Berlin (Germany), New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Colombia and various other locations across the UK, USA and Europe.

In 2017 Balaclava.Q is working in partnership with RAMP: Recycled Medicine Campaign, LGBT Consortium UK and the global movement Prevention Access Campaign.

The artist films create awareness and promote discourse specifically about the Prevention Access Campaign, a global movement which seeks to educate communities on current findings and statistics which state unequivocally that Undetectable = Untransmissable or U=U as it has been branded by www.preventionaccess.org. At the very core of this year’s screening is a message about intimacy without fear of transmission. 

This screening is programmed back to back with Visual Aids-  a program of newly commissioned videos by Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Brontez Purnell titled ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS is the 28th annual iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. This event is part of  Manchester’s first Day With(out) Art programme from Superbia. 

This year’s Greater Manchester serving of HIVideo 2017 is presented by The Penthouse .

The Penthouse is an artist led Dyke|Queer contemporary art project and space based in Manchester founded and ran by artists Rosanne Robertson and Debbie Sharp. Curatorial and research projects are focused on Queer art, radical practices, Queer feminism, experimental and raw art- we consider the power at the margins.

The Penthouse is currently based at Paradise Works in a luxurious corner suite-  a fitting home on the border of Salford and Manchester. Paradise Works is a new artist run initiative providing studios & project space to a community of proactive, intergenerational, contemporary artists established 2017.

HIVideo is produced by Balaclava.Q : An international Queer Art Project and collective. Connecting, promoting and Creating Platforms for Queer artists.

Founded in June 2016 by Stiofan O’Ceallaigh as a reaction to the Orlando, Florida massacre, Balaclava.Q is a not-for-profit and relies solely on the passion, motivation and influence of its volunteers, artists and advocates; an international queer visual art project and collective that asks artists to look at tactics that disrupt, activate, instigate and explore contemporary queer concerns. Currently showcasing works by over 200 international queer artists, this project acts as a platform and connector for artists and audiences.

This project is supported by a grant from Superbia. Superbia Grants provide financial support for LGBT events as part of Manchester Pride’s commitment to the quality and diversity of cultural events taking place throughout the year in Greater Manchester. http://superbia.org.uk

 Further reading:

Balaclava.Q website                Balaclava Q Twitter

The Penthouse website          The Penthouse Twitter

RAMP: http://rampusa.org/    LGBT Consortium UK: http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/

Prevention Access Campaign: https://www.preventionaccess.org/

 Further info/ Press enquiries:

Rosanne Robertson (The Penthouse- Founder and Director) thepenthousenq@gmail.com

Stiofan O’Ceallaigh (Balaclava.Q – Founder and Director), 2017 - balaclava.q@gmail.com / +7541 23 66 35

[didyouread]

[duvalart]

December 1 is traditionally Day Without Art to raise awareness to HIV, those who died from it and encourage positive action. Here is my own work from 1992, Trying To Stop The Images, a work on paper. #daywithoutart #vogue #novogue (at Terminal 5 - John F. Kennedy International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8aRp2pxNw/?utm_medium=tumblr