December 1, 2011
Free nationwide screenings
in recognition of World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art
Sponsored by:
About
- Visual AIDS is marking 30 years of AIDS by distributing Untitled by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz. The film will be screened nationwide at museums, arts organizations, colleges, community groups on December 1, 2011, also known as World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art.
All screenings are free and open to the public.
Beginning with a reflection on the early AIDS epidemic, Untitled eschews a linear narrative to introduce a fractious timeline, moving from the sublime to the tragic and back again. By juxtaposing mainstream network news, activist footage, artists' works, and popular entertainment from the last turbulent decades, Untitled references regimes of power that precipitated a generation of AIDS and queer activism and continues today with international struggles for freedom and expression.
Jim Hodges has created a broad range of work exploring themes of fragility, temporality, love, and death in a highly original and poetic vocabulary. His works frequently deploy different materials and techniques: from ready‐made objects to traditional media, such as graphite and ink. He currently lives and works in New York City. Carlos Marques da Cruz works with artists, performers, and filmmakers world-wide. Encke King is a film and video producer, editor, and writer based in New York.
Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone and inspire positive action, some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day With(out) Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS Service Organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.
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Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy - because AIDS is not over.
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Presented by Creative Time
at IFC Center, NYC
In collaboration with Visual AIDS
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Join Creative Time on December 1 for a special screening event at IFC Center in New York City with Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson, artist Malik Gaines activist Che Gossett and anthropologist and
filmmaker Shanti Avirgan.
How do we weave the long and critical history of AIDS activism into the movement today? How can we understand critical and cultural interventions like Untitled and Day With(out)Art in context of Occupy actions? How can we integrate these analysis, and others, into the important goal of identifying a politics of impoverishment?
Please come prepared to join the dialogue.
Screenings: 4:00PM, 5:15PM, 9:00PM - tickets available at the IFC Center box office
starting one hour before each show, limit 2 per person.
Screening and Dialogue*: 6:30PM - tickets available *by reservation only
(Please note: A limited number of tickets for the 6:30 screening and dialogue may be
released to a standby line at showtime; standby line will begin forming at the IFC
Center box office at 5:30PM.)
*by reservation only
IFC Center
323 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10014-4403
(212) 924-7771
Featuring respondents:
Malik Gaines is a curator, writer, artist, and an Associate Professor Combined Media at Hunter College. He has organized exhibitions and projects including Kalup Linzy: All My Churen (2006), Talks About Acts (2007), Anna Sew Hoy: Pow (2008), and Colter Jacobsen: Searchin' Vs. Buildin' (2010). Gaines has worked as an independent curator of exhibitions including "Fade: African American Artists in Los Angeles" (2004) for the City of Los Angeles; Effacé (2006) at Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills; Read Me! Text in Art (2007) at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; and Quadruple Consciousness (2010) at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Gaines has contributed art criticism and journalism to publications including Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze, The Advocate, ArtUS and Art Papers. He has written catalogue essays for the Studio Museum in Harlem, the 1st Moscow Biennial, the Hammer Museum, among others, and has provided monograph texts for artists including Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon and Wangechi Mutu. With collaborators Alexandro Segade and Jade Gordon, Gaines is a member of the collective My Barbarian, which has shown performance and video work internationally.
Shanti Avirgan is a writer, researcher, and documentary filmmaker who grew up in Tanzania and Costa Rica and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked in alliance with AIDS activist groups including Health GAP, CHAMP and the Student Global AIDS Campaign. Her first feature-length documentary, Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement, premiered on the Showtime cable network in 2005 and she recently collaborated with veteran filmmaker Jean Carlomusto on Sex in an Epidemic (2010), an historical documentary about the sexual politics of HIV/AIDS in the United States. Shanti has taught at NYU and Brooklyn College (CUNY) and currently teaches medical anthropology in Brazil, Vietnam and South Africa for the School for International Training / IHP Program in Health & Community.
Che Gossett has been involved in political activism for prison abolitionism and gender self determination, campaigns to end "prostitution free zones" in Washington DC and currently is a steering committee member of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance. Che is a contributor to the anthology Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press) and Stand Up: The Politics of Racial Uplift (South End Press) about the criminalization of HIV and abolition as an HIV/AIDS issue, forthcoming this spring.
Moderated by Nato Thompson, Creative Time Chief Curator
Screenings
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Visual AIDS has partnered with the following organizations to share Untitled on Day With(out) Art 2011.
For more information contact the venue in your area.
NYC Screenings
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Creative Time at IFC Center
Screenings at: 4:00 PM, 5:15 PM, 6:30 PM*, 9:00 PM
*Followed by discussion with Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson, artist Malik Gaines and writer and filmmaker Shanti Avirgan
RSVP needed for 6:30 PM screening and discussion.
Email events@creativetime.org
Brooklyn Museum
For screening time contact venue
The Actors Fund at The Schermerhorn, Brooklyn
For screening time contact venue
Exit Art
Evening screening with special guest introduction and Q & A to follow. Contact venue for more details.
The Fales Library &
Special Collections at New York University
Continuous screenings beginning at 10:00 AM, last screening at 5:00 PM
FLAG Art
Foundation
Screenings at: 1:00 PM, 2:30 PM, 4:00 PM
Gladstone Gallery
Continuous screenings beginning at 10:00 AM, last screening at 5:00 PM.
In conjunction with Jim Hodges exhibition.
The Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Continuous screenings beginning at 11:00 AM, last screening at 5:00 PM
Guggenheim Museum
**Friday December 2 — Screenings at: 11:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Screening at 7:00 PM
La Galleria at La Mama
For screening time contact venue
Leslie-Lohman Museum
of Gay and Lesbian Art
Two continuous screenings from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
*In conjunction with Art & AIDS: 30 Years, presented in partnership with GMHC
MAD, Museum of Art and Design
Continuous screenings from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
New Museum
Continuous screenings every hour on the hour from 11:00 AM until 8:00 PM
Screenings during the day (11:00 AM - 6:00 PM) are available with the price of admission.
7:00 PM and 8:00 PM screenings are free, as is museum entrance
Participant Inc
Screening at 8:30 PM
10:30 PM Performance by Justin Vivian Bond
in conjunction with Justin Vivian Bond The Fall of the House of Whimsy
Phaidon Store
Screening at 7:00 PM
Queerocracy at the New School
**Tuesday November 29 – screening at 8:00 PM in the Orientation Room, Lobby of 2 W 13th St. NYC
Screening at 6:00 PM
In conjunction with the week-long program Transformation
School of Visual Arts
For screening time contact venue
Whitney Museum of American Art
Continuous screenings from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Visual AIDS
Resource Guide
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In an effort to honor the sense of endlessness that Untitled suggests,Visual AIDS produced a Resource Guide as a starting point for provoking both public and private conversation. The Resource Guide contains vocabulary, HIV information, and an AIDS timeline, as well as thoughts and questions to encourage further engagement with the film and the issues surrounding it.
