Still Beginning

  • December 1, 2019 / 19:00
  • December 6, 2019 / 21:00

I Remember Dancing, Nguyen Tan Hoang, 2019, 5' 15''
I'm Still Me, Iman Shervington, 2019, 7' 43''
(eye, virus), Jack Waters, Victor F.M. Torres, 2019, 7' 09''
Much handled things are always soft, Derrick Woods-Morrow, 2019, 8' 36''
The Lie, Carl George, 2019, 5' 59''
Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution, Viva Ruiz, 2019, 7' 31''
Beat Goes On, Shanti Avirgan, 2019, 8' 52''

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.

This program’s screenings are free admissions. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

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