Visual AIDS, Being & Belonging

In partnership with MOCA and The Studio Museum in Harlem, Visual AIDS presents a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. Whether navigating sex and intimacy or confronting stigma and isolation, Being and Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support and belonging? The program is a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities of left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

Being and Belonging will premiere at over 100 museums and arts organizations in conjunction with Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day 2022.

Films
Camila Arce, Memoria Vertical, 2022.

Clifford Prince King, Kiss of Life, 2022.

Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes, Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, 2022.

Jaewon Kim, Nuance, 2022.

Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry, Lxs dxs bichudas, 2022.

Mikiki, Red Flags: A Love Letter, 2022.

Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Los Amarillos, 2022.

All films commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging.

Camila Arce (she/her) is an artivista from Rosario, Argentina who has been living with HIV since she was born 27 years ago. She writes about her daily life and publishes poetry and social, political, and economic commentary @sidiosa.

Davina “Dee” Conner (she/her) is an HIV educator, podcast host, and international speaker who has been living with HIV since 1997. Her podcast, Pozitively Dee Discussions, won ADAP’s 2017 Leadership Award for working to dispel internalized stigma and change how society views HIV.

Karin Hayes (she/her) is an award-winning documentary director and producer. Her credits include We’re Not Broke (Sundance Film Festival/iTunes), The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/CNN), Held Hostage in Colombia (History/SundanceTV), Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship (PBS/MPT),

Jaewon Kim (he/him) is a Korean artist currently based in Seoul, South Korea. Kim primarily works with video, photography, and installation to discuss the lives of queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Clifford Prince King (he/him) is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak on his experiences as a queer black man.

Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (he/him) is a visual artist born in Ibagué-Tolima, Colombia with a focus on audiovisual projects, video editing, experimental video, VJ sets, and music video production.

Santiago Lemus (he/him) is an artist born in Sogamoso, Colombia. His interdisciplinary work uses organic matter, image, and sound to address the relationship between art, nature, and landscape through installations, interventions, performances, photography, and video.

Mikiki (they/them) is a performance and video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Their work has been presented.

Jhoel Zempoalteca (he/him) is a visual artist and educator born in Tlaxcala, Mexico. His work seeks to produce a counter-pedagogy by deconstructing the visual imaginaries surrounding dissident and seropositive experiences.

La Jerry (they/them) is a non-binary folk dancer born and raised in Juchitan, Mexico. They have participated in numerous folk dance gatherings and festivals in Mexico.

Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, with Amelia Charter, Producer of Performance and Programs and Brian Dang, Programming Coordinator.

Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is founded by Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family

Видео Visual AIDS, Being & Belonging канала The Museum of Contemporary Art