Events

October 2016

Visual AIDS Recommends

Sat

1

Who Are The Stewards Of The AIDS Archive?

4:30pm–6:30pm

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC

In this public conversation, Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr explore the dominance of white gay men as the main subjects and makers of AIDS-related culture that gets made and circulated about the ongoing epidemic. Examples include: Dallas Buyers Club, How...
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Artist Talk

Sun

2

Lecture and Q&A “Deborah Kass’ Art History: Before and After Queer Theory”

12:00pm–2:00pm

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

A lecture by Theodore Triandos, immediately followed by a Q&A with artist Deborah Kass. In “Deborah Kass’ Art History: Before and after Queer Theory,” Theodore Triandos explains how Kass’ paintings launch a queer theoretical critique of...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Artist Member Event

Sun

2

Loving Tribute to Valerie Caris-Blitz

6:00pm–8:00pm

Le Petit Versailles Garden, NYC

Stage 1 of a Loving Tribute to Valerie Caris-Blitz nee "Contessa Valee" Celebrating her art and role as muse with highlights from her film appearances. Special guest speakers including Sur Rodney (Sur) and Seth Tabacman. Reminiscences and comments on Valerie...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, In Conversation

Tue

4

AIDS, Representation and the Bronx

7:00pm–9:00pm

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Recently, "Art AIDS America," on exhibit at the Bronx Museum until October 23, has received criticism for the lack of diversity among the roster of 125 artists in the show. While the Black and African American population continues to experience the greatest...
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Visual AIDS Recommends

Thu, October 6 –
Sat, November 19

Lost and Found: Event Series

Danspace Project: Platform 2016, NYC

Danspace Projects presents PLATFORM 2016: Lost and Found will include over 50 artists that will participate in twenty-eight events during this multi-week series of programming that will examine the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. “Platform 2016: Lost and...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Exhibition

Fri, October 7 –
Sun, February 26

Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York

The Museum of the City of New York

New York has long been a beacon for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender artists seeking freedom, acceptance, and community. Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York brings to life the queer creative networks that sprang up in the...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, In Conversation

Sat

8

Art AIDS America: Performance and tour with Sur Rodney (Sur), Lola Flash and Hunter Reynolds

1:00pm–4:00pm

Bronx Museum of Art, NY

Performance and tour with Sur Rodney (Sur) with Art+ Positive members Lola Flash and Hunter Reynolds. Schedule: 1:00pm to 3:00pm: Hunter Reynolds’ Survival AIDS Mummification Performance, to begin on the 2nd floor North Wing Terrace and come to...
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Reading

Wed

12

Reading: Christodora by author Tim Murphy

7:00pm–8:00pm

Author Tim Murphy read from his new novel Christodora, a bold portrait of the bohemian Manhattan of sex, drugs, art, and AIDS activism from the 1980s into near the future. Tim Murphy ambitiously turns the interconnected lives...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

Sat

15

Conversation Without Walls: One of Two

1:30pm–6:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

This first of two long-form conversations contextualizing Platform 2016: Lost & Found, curators Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls host a discussion of the Platform’s origins in an afternoon interspersed with performance. In search of an intergenerational discussion around artistic...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Reading

Tue

18

Reading: Douglas Crimp on “Before Pictures”

7:00pm–9:00pm

192 Books, NYC

Before Pictures tells the story of Douglas Crimp’s life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City during the late 1960s through the turbulent 1970s. The details of his professional and personal life are interwoven...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Artist Member Event

Tue

18

The Zine Project: Allied Productions with Jack Waters & Peter Cramer

7:00pm–9:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

A conversation with Allied Productions on the second and final evening of their zine residency.Founded in 1980 by Jack Waters and Peter Cramer, Allied Productions helped give a start to pioneering non-profits like ABC No Rio on the Lower East...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Screening

Wed

19

Charles Atlas: Son of Sam and Delilah

7:00pm–9:00pm

Howl! Happening, NYC

Created by pioneering multimedia artist Charles Atlas, Son of Sam and Delilah (1991, 26:59 min, video, color, sound) is “a dark vision of an America where life is cheap and even the moments of tenderness have a life threatening edge.”...
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Visual AIDS Event

Sat

22

Tour + Talk | ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future, Funk, Fashion

3:00pm–4:30pm

El Museo Del Barrio

Join Visual AIDS and El Museo Del Bario for a guided tour and talk of ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future Funk Fashion with the exhibition's co-curator Rocio Aranda Alvarado and artist and executor of the Antonio Lopez Estate, Paul Caranicas, moderated by...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

Thu

27

Interventions in the Narrativization of the AIDS Crisis

6:30pm–8:30pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

Focusing on the period of 1981-1996, this conversation proposes to undo and to disrupt dominant and static narratives of the AIDS Crisis in favor of producing new approaches, through convening senior and junior scholars and archivists including Tara Burk (Art...
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November 2016

Panel Discussion

Thu

10

A Matter of Urgency and Agency: HIV/AIDS Now

6:30pm–8:30pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

This evening with Jawanza James Williams, Theodore Kerr, Kenyon Farrow, Robert Sember, and iele paloumpis will focus on the work of current activists and will attempt to articulate and historicize contemporary issues related to HIV/AIDS. We aim...
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Visual AIDS Event

Tue

15

Memory Palace

6:00pm–10:00pm

Danspace Project

Historically, the Memory Palace is a technique of memory recall often used by ancient Greek poets. By committing a location to memory, a poet could take an imaginary “walk” through this location, thereby recalling people, faces, events, and other memorial...
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Visual AIDS Exhibition , Visual AIDS Event

Thu, November 17 –
Sat, December 10

Everyday

La Mama Galleria

Curated by Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz and Hugh Ryan, "Everyday" explores the AIDS crisis (historically and currently) through the lens of art work that looks at and evidences daily experiences & practices in response to HIV/AIDS. Opening Reception:...
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Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

Sat

19

Conversation Without Walls: Two of Two

1:30pm–6:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

In the second of two long-form conversations contextualizing Platform 2016: Lost & Found, artists and curators revisit the community ethos of the East Village in the 1980s/90s and analogous networks of artists and activists today, in an afternoon interspersed with...
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December 2016

Visual AIDS Recommends, Exhibition

Thu, December 1 –
Sun, April 2

Art AIDS America: Chicago

Alphawood Gallery, Chicago

This groundbreaking exhibition underscores the deep and unforgettable presence of HIV in American art. It introduces and explores the whole spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS, from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful, surveying works from the early 198...
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January 2017

Exhibition

Thu, January 26 –
Sun, April 2

One day this kid will get larger

DePaul Art Museum

A group exhibition of emerging contemporary artists who address the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic in North America through the lens of childhood, education, popular culture and race.This exhibition is guest-curated by Danny Orendorff and is presented concurrently with the...
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Exhibitions and Events

October 2016

1

4:30pm–6:30pm

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC

2

12:00pm–2:00pm

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

Visual AIDS Recommends, Artist Member Event

2

6:00pm–8:00pm

Le Petit Versailles Garden, NYC

Visual AIDS Recommends, In Conversation

4

7:00pm–9:00pm

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Danspace Project: Platform 2016, NYC

Visual AIDS Recommends, Exhibition

The Museum of the City of New York

Visual AIDS Recommends, In Conversation

8

1:00pm–4:00pm

Bronx Museum of Art, NY

12

7:00pm–8:00pm

Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

15

1:30pm–6:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

Visual AIDS Recommends, Reading

18

7:00pm–9:00pm

192 Books, NYC

Visual AIDS Recommends, Artist Member Event

18

7:00pm–9:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

Visual AIDS Recommends, Screening

19

7:00pm–9:00pm

Howl! Happening, NYC

22

3:00pm–4:30pm

El Museo Del Barrio

Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

27

6:30pm–8:30pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

November 2016

10

6:30pm–8:30pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

15

6:00pm–10:00pm

Danspace Project

Visual AIDS Exhibition , Visual AIDS Event

La Mama Galleria

Visual AIDS Recommends, Panel Discussion

19

1:30pm–6:00pm

Danspace Project: Platform 2016

December 2016

Visual AIDS Recommends, Exhibition

Alphawood Gallery, Chicago

January 2017

DePaul Art Museum

Ongoing Events

Through Oct 1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Through Oct 1

The National Arts Club

Through Oct 15

Proto-Gallery

Through Oct 16

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Through Oct 20

Church of St. Paul the Apostle

Through Oct 23

The Bronx Museum of Art

Through Nov 5