Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS
November 30 to December 5, 2020 Jepson CenterTelfair Museums is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Charan Singh (India/UK), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).
The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of the global AIDS epidemic, but provides a platform for a diversity of voices from beyond the United States, offering insight into the divergent and overlapping experiences of people living with HIV around the world today. The six commissioned videos cover a broad range of subjects, such as the erasure of women living with HIV in South America, ineffective Western public health campaigns in India, and the realities of stigma and disclosure for young people in Uganda.
As the world continues to adapt to living with a new virus, COVID-19, these videos offer an opportunity to reflect on the resonances and differences between the two epidemics and their uneven distribution across geography, race, and gender.
TRANSMISSIONS will premiere on November 30 in the Neises Auditorium and will be on a looping presentation during museum open hours through Sunday, December 5.
Beginning December 1, the video program will be available to view online at visualaids.org/transmissions.
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.
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Las Indetectables, Me Cuido, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.
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Charan Singh, They Called it Love, But Was it Love?, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.
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Jorge Bordello, Ministry of Health, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.
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Gevi Dimitrakopoulou, This is Right; Zak, Life and After, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.
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Lucia Egaña Rojas, Female Disappearance Syndrome, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.
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George Stanley Nsamba, Finding Purpose, 2020; commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020; still courtesy of Visual AIDS.