“Day With(out) Art” (World AIDS Day) at WCMA!
Sun, December 1st, 2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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WCMA 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.
In conjunction with our Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art exhibition, WCMA welcomes you to a screening of these films followed by a dialogue led by local LGBTQIA+ community members. This event includes a panel discussion with members of the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition and Queer Men of Berkshires, followed by a poetry writing workshop. Additionally, there will be short oral history interviewing sessions for those who would like to share their experiences with queerness in the Berkshires (you can sign up for a time-slot here). Connect with our community as we reflect, remember, and create together.