For Day With(out) Art 2024, Visual AIDS presents Red Reminds Me..., seven artist videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Featuring work 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)
NYC Premiere
Whitney Museum of American Art
Sunday, December 1, 4PM
Free with RSVP
Over 100 museums, universities, and other organizations will present Red Reminds Me... on or around December 1, World AIDS Day.
Click here to learn how to participate.
Featuring work 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)
NYC Premiere
Whitney Museum of American Art
Sunday, December 1, 4PM
Free with RSVP
Over 100 museums, universities, and other organizations will present Red Reminds Me... on or around December 1, World AIDS Day.
Click here to learn how to participate.
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 deep, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.
The artists in this program were selected through an open call process juried by artists/activists aAliy A. Muhammad and Jessica Whitbread, curator Alper Turan, and community organizer Josué Lopez.
More info about the videos and artists here.
More info about Day With(out) Art + Visual AIDS here.