I’m Here!
World AIDS Day

December 1 - 10, 2017

Pera Film is presenting a special program on World AIDS Day. The program includes documentaries Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and How to Survive a Plague as well as the award-winning fiction film 120 BPM (120 Beats Per Minute). Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, 120 BPM is a harrowing yet inspiring look back at the activism of French ACT UP protestors during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s. Electronic Arts Intermix’s curated video program Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS includes the work of George Kuchar, Nate Lavey, Stephen Vider, Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise and Charlie Ahearn. The four videos in the program engage the concept of “home video,” making use of consumer video technology and the aesthetics of the camcorder era to create works that explore the intersections of art, caretaking, family, and home. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS, the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, has commissioned artist projects which include intimate meditations of young HIV positive protagonists; a consideration of community-based HIV/AIDS activism in the South; explorations of the legacies and contemporary resonances within AIDS archives; a poetic journey through New York exploring historical traces of queer and trans life, and more. Together, the videos provide a platform centering voices deeply impacted by the ongoing epidemic.

Historically and currently, the HIV/AIDS landscape has been borne out of politics, culture, and systems of inequality. Certain populations continue to carry the disproportionate brunt of HIV infection and its consequences. This special program examines how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present.

This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.

December 1

19:00 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

21:00 120 BPM

December 2

14:00 Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

16:00 How to Survive a Plague

December 3

16:00 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

18:00 How to Survive a Plague

December 9

18:00 Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

December 10

14:00 Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

15:00 Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

120 BPM

120 BPM

Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

Program Trailer

I’m Here!
World AIDS Day

This special program examines how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present.

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.  Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks. 

The Search for Form

The Search for Form

A series of small and rather similar nudes Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Eren Eyüboğlu produced in the early 1930s almost resemble a ‘visual conversation’ that focus on a pictorial search. It is also possible to find the visual reflections of this earlier search in the synthesis Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu reached with his stylistic abstractions in the 1950s.

Modernity Building the Modern / Reshaping the Modern

Modernity Building the Modern / Reshaping the Modern

A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.