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For Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2024, we're presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS have 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.
The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes, “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.” Linking red to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deep, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings. (90 mins., DCP)
Red Reminds Me… features newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:Gian Cruz (Philippines) Milko Delgado (Panama) Imani Harrington (United States) David Oscar Harvey (United States)Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia) Nixie (Belgium) Vasilios Papapitsios (United States)
The artists in this year’s program were selected through an open call process juried by artists/activists aAliy A. Muhammad and Jessica Whitbread, curator Alper Turan, and community organizer Josué Lopez.
IMAGE CAPTIONClockwise from top left: Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck, Dear Kwong Chi, PARAPRONOIA, it’s giving, El Club del SIDA, El VIH se enamoró de mi (HIV Fell in Love With Me), courtesy of Visual AIDS for Red Reminds Me....
In the words of Cinéseries members: Cinéseries is a student-led group that organizes screenings in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts. We aim to offer a space for students and the community to engage with film and expanded cinema from makers of a variety of backgrounds. We aspire to create an environment conducive to critical engagement by inviting filmmakers to showcase work that takes risks, challenges norms, and opens a conversation by devoting to a wide range of artist-centered and independent media.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY National Endowment for the Arts Ohio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Rohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family Institute of Museum and Library Services Mellon Foundation Every Page Foundation Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts CampusParc Nationwide Foundation Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus FoundationOhio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme The Columbus Foundation Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Ohio State Energy Partners Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle
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Day With(out) Art: Red Reminds Me...