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The Wex is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the 30th annual Day With(out) Art by presenting 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 matter from antistigma 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. (program approx. 60 mins.)
Please note: some of the videos contain mature content.
Gregg Bordowitz’s The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz, a past guest at the Wex, discuss the work on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago.
Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s 30th year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic
Derrick Woods-Morrow, Much handled things are always soft, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Production still by Patric McCoy
Shanti Avirgan, Beat Goes On, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist
Carl George, The Lie, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist
Nguyen Tan Hoang, After Heaven, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist
Viva Ruiz, Chloe Dzubilo: Love Warrior, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist
Iman Shervington, I'm Still Me, 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist
Jack Waters, (eye, virus), 2019. Commissioned for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2019. Still courtesy of the artist and Victor F. M. Torres
SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO Rohauer Collection Foundation
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Greater Columbus Arts Council Ohio Arts Council The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation
SUPPORT FOR ARTS ACCESS Cardinal Health Foundation Huntington Bank
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