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Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS

  • Public Space One 229 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City, IA 52245 United States (map)
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Public Space One is proud to partner with VisualAIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos about the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, from artists around the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK).

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 at 6pm EST on a special online platform designed by artist Glen Fogel. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the commissioned artists, moderated by Jih-Fei Cheng.

The videos will be screened with English subtitles, and live English captioning will be available during the panel discussion. A recording of the discussion will be posted online after the event.

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