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Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019 from 12:00pm–2:00pm

Visual AIDS Presents: Still Beginning. The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

Visual AIDS Presents: Still Beginning. The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

The Department of Literature, Critical Gender Studies Program, and Institute of Arts and Humanities are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting 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. 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. 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. For Day With(out) Art’s thirtieth year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic. <https://visualaids.org/projects/day-without-art-2019>

Date and Time

Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019 from 12:00pm–2:00pm

Location

Literature Building, Room 155

Event Registration

Registration is not required for this event.

Event Fee

Free

Contact

Derrick Chin    derrickchin@ucsd.edu    858-534-4618

Audience

Faculty, Staff, Students, The General Public

Event Host

Hoang Nguyen

Event Category

Film and Television