Description
World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
In collaboration with Visual AIDS* & hosted by Marcelo Alves
On World AIDS Day, and closing of a 5 day observation of HIV / AIDS, Village Berlin holds a special ceremony to unite around issues associated with HIV and AIDS. The event includes creating an altar as a group, holding a small ceremony, followed by Visual AIDS film program.
For the Altar, participants are encouraged to bring anything that deals with the topic of HIV AIDS, illness, recovery and thriving as it relates to the color Red, a theme initiated by Visual AIDS. This altar is meant to express any and all personal experience with HIV and AIDS.
Following the altar we will hold a a few moments of silence as a group to then open the space up for personal reflections. Attendants are highly encouraged to participate in any capacity. Referencing Visual AIDS theme on the color red as a starting point, all voices will be treated equal. Be it loss, grief, anger, activism, indifference, or even historical interest, no voice is to be unheard.
PROGRAM 6pm – 9pm
• open circle by Marcelo Alves
• Reading performance by Nikolaj Tange Lange
Like many kids growing up i the Eighties, Nikolaj Tange Lange knew that sex could kill him, before he even knew what sex was. He’ll be reading to us a chapter from his novel Romeo & Seahorse in which he reflects on testing positive in 2007, in a period of change when it wasn’t so much the virus that was the issue, as is was the history and the stigma around it.
• Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:
_ Gian Cruz (Philippines) _ Milko Delgado (Panama) _ Imani Harrington (USA) _ David Oscar Harvey (USA) _ Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia) _ Nixie (Belgium) Vasilios _ Papapitsios (USA)
• Closing
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.
