World AIDS Day | Still Beginning The 30th Annual Day With (out) Art at The Box Gallery

STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art

For the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents 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.

The hour-long video program will premiere on Sunday, December 1, 2019, World AIDS Day — see below for a screening near you.

*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here.

Visual AIDS Marquee Screenings:

★ World AIDS Day, December 1: Whitney Museum of American Art, 3pm, screening followed by a conversation with Shanti Avirgan, Viva Ruiz, and Jack Waters, moderated by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Kyle Croft. (RSVP) (FB)

Florida

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (10975 SW 17 St, Miami , FL 33199), December 5, 3-6pm, looping presentation. Videos on loop during our Miami Art Week student engagement event, Art Pop, where we will be highlighting Miami's queer youth/creatives. This program is in part with our exhibition Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989.

Florida Department of Health in Leon County (Bill Fagen Room/ Floor 1, 1515 Old Bainbridge Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303), November 27, 9am-4pm, looping presentation.

The Box Gallery (Rolando Chang Barrero, 811B Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33405), December 1, 3pm–9pm, looping presentation. HIV Testing and PrEP info by Compass at The Box Gallery and outdoor BBQ at Roosters next door. (RSVP) (fb)

World AIDS Museum and Educational Center (World AIDS Museum and Educational Center, 1201 NE 26 Street, #111, Wilton Manors, FL 33305), December 1, 3–6pm, looping presentation with cocktail reception. The event is followed by participation in the World AIDS Day Vigil and Remembrance Walk. (fb)

California

★ MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012), December 5, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Nguyen Tan Hoang and Iman Shervington, moderated by Pato Hebert.

Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024), December 1, 11am–5pm, looping presentation. (link)

Illinois

★ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago(220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611), December 13, 7pm, screening followed by a conversation with Carl George, Patric McCoy, and Derrick Woods-Morrow, moderated by curator Risa Puleo. (link) (RSVP)

Connecticut

Real Art Ways (Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106), December 1, 3:30pm, screening event. Post screening discussion organized in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. (link) (fb)

⬥ Yale University Art Gallery (Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510), December 5, 5:30pm, screening event. A panel discussion follows the screening, including featured artist Viva Ruiz in conversation with Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, and Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies; and Alex Fialho, Ph.D. student in the History of Art and African American Studies. (link)