Video Screening (In-Person) | Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me…
NYU’s Grey Art Museum is proud to partner with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to support Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 (December 1) by presenting two screenings of Red Reminds Me…, a program of short videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Red Reminds Me… will feature seven newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), and Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).
Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has 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, including themes of eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and fate, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.
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.
EVENT INFORMATION
On Monday, December 2, from 9 am to 6 pm, Red Reminds Me… will be played at the Tisch School of the Arts at 721 Broadway, Room 1164. Tickets are not required—visitors can enter and exit at any point during the program.
On Tuesday, December 3, from 11 am to 5 pm, Red Reminds Me… will be played at the Grey Art Museum at 18 Cooper Square, Room 101. An AIDS-related artwork by Barton Lidicé Beneš (Born 1942; Died 2012) from the NYU Art Collection will be highlighted.
VIDEO SYNOPSES
Gian Cruz, Dear Kwong Chi
In Dear Kwong Chi, Cruz creates a video letter to the late artist Tseng Kwong Chi, drawing from the experience of living with HIV in diaspora. Across continents and decades, Kwong Chi’s legacy acts as an anchor for Cruz amongst limited representations of Asian narratives in AIDS histories.
Milko Delgado, El Club del SIDA
Taking its title from a sensational telenovela episode, El Club del SIDA cycles through a lifetime of heavily stigmatizing images about HIV and AIDS. Delgado plays with multiple aesthetics—documentary, horror, comedy—to explore the various relationships he has had with AIDS over the course of his life.
Imani Harrington, Realms Remix
Through a collage of poetry and archival images, Realms Remix traces memories and sensations of an AIDS past that continue to haunt the present.
David Oscar Harvey, Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck tackles the disorienting experience of existing with a manageable condition that our present culture insists on representing in terms of its bleak past. Interested in figuring HIV differently, the film presents a series of visual puns merging the iconography of HIV and AIDS with popular symbols of luck.
Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar, El VIH se enamoró de mi (HIV Fell in Love With Me)
HIV Fell in Love With Me tells the story of a woman with HIV embracing her sexuality and reconnecting with her pleasure. Filmed with an erotic aesthetic, the video reflects a pursuit towards sexual justice and autonomy for women living with HIV.
Nixie, it’s giving
Through home videos, archival footage and textile landscapes, it’s giving explores various forms of family across time. The artist’s domestic life is paired with archival video of queer and trans chosen families mirroring small acts of joy, resistance, and sustenance. What does it mean for an HIV+ person, who carries the history and present of the AIDS-crisis in their DNA, to foster new life?
Vasilios Papapitsios, LUCID NIGHTMARE
Papapitsios describes LUCID NIGHTMARE as a “meditation on how we can(not) heal in the environments that make us sick, from the perspective of an infected neurodivergent faggot.” Combining auto-fiction with magical realism, Papapitsios humorously reimagines narratives around mental health and chronic illness.
VISITOR ACCESS & REGISTRATION
Tickets for the screening are not required—visitors can enter and exit at any point during the program.
NYU’s Grey Art Museum is free for NYU students, faculty and staff, with a $5 suggested donation for all others. The Grey Art Museum provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be submitted at least two weeks in advance. Please email greyartmuseum@nyu.edu or call (212) 998-6780 for assistance.
Co-presented by Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU and Espacio de Culturas, NYU
