Sunday, December 1, 2019
Screening at 7pm | free admission
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates Street, Victoria BC | deluge.ca
Viva Ruiz, Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution, 2019. Still courtesy of the artist.
Carl George, The Lie, 2019. Still courtesy of the artist.
Deluge Contemporary Art and the Victoria Arts Council are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth 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 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 screening 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.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit 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 thirtieth 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. Production still by Patric McCoy.
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