On this page you will find recordings from some of the events that happened at Art AIDS America Chicago.
Salonathon: Call Forth the Future (2 APR 2017)
Art AIDS America Chicago Panel – Lessons in Activism Panel (2 APR 2017)
As we look to the future we reflect on the many lessons that shifted the political paradigm and galvanized a polarized nation toward action. In our final panel Art AIDS America Chicago investigates these collective strategies in discussion with artistic, educational, and activist leaders featuring Rae Lewis-Thornton (Emmy Award: Hard News, Living With AIDS ), Ricardo Jiménez (Vida/SIDA), Graunk Enzenberger (Pink Angels), Maxx Boykin (AIDS Foundation of Chicago), and Oli Rodriguez (The Papi Project) moderated by University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women’s Studies Director and In Plain Sight: A Women’s History of HIV/AIDS in Chicago Project Director, Jennie Brier.
Viral Representation: On AIDS and Art (10-11 MAR 2017)
Viral Representation: On AIDS and Art, held in conjunction with the exhibition Art AIDS America at the Alphawood Gallery, brings together scholars, artists, collectors, and curators to address how artists have responded to, and reflected on, AIDS in America.
Art AIDS America Chicago Panel – Love Positive Women: HIV & Women featuring performance by Felicia Holman and Meida McNeal of Honey Pot Performance (22 FEB 2017)
Too often the conversation about HIV/AIDS does not include the impact it has on women or individuals who identify within the feminine spectrum – including transgender, gender non-conforming, and womyn – who represent the highest rates of HIV seroconversion. Beyond health statistics, increased levels of discrimination and criminalization trends have disproportionately affected women of color. This panel discussion brings women to the center of the conversation, providing a critical examination of the causes and effects the impact of HIV/AIDS has on their lives. Panelists include Lesherri James (Affinity Community Services), Jackie Boyd (The Care Plan), Teyanna Veasy (Broadway Youth Center), Marissa Miller (Howard Brown Health), Mary Miller (Chicago Women’s AIDS Project) and will be moderated by Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ Director of Clinical Education and Initiatives, Brenda Wolfe.
Art AIDS America Chicago: Artist Kia Labeija in Conversation with Zach Stafford featuring performance by McKenzie Chinn (17 FEB 2017)
Artist Kia Labeija in Conversation with Zach Stafford: Art AIDS America Chicago artist Kia Labeija discusses her artistic practice, which includes photography and voguing, with Zach Stafford, nationally known Chicago-based journalist and editor-at- large for OUT Magazine. Kia Labeija was born with HIV and lost her mother at age 14. She aims for her work to break through a silence that many experience, creating a community and a space to heal.
Art AIDS America Chicago Panel: Embracing Equity (11 JAN 2017)
Embracing Equity: A candid conversation led by arts professionals on how to break down the barriers and structures that create a lack of equitable representation in the arts and arts institutions. Panelists include Aymar Jean Christian, founder of Open TV and Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University; Anthony Hirschel, Director of Exhibitions, Alphawood Gallery; Amina Ross, transdisciplinary artist based in Chicago; Kiam Marcelo Junio, visual and performance artist; and Charles Long, Program Coordinator One day this kid will get larger Exhibit. The panel will be moderated by Tracye Matthews, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago.
How AIDS Changed American Art–An Illustrated Lecture by Jonathan Katz with performance by avery r. young (3 DEC 2016)
Widely considered merely a tragic tangent within US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American art since the 1980’s. Of course, we have repressed AIDS’ role in the making of our culture in keeping with our longstanding repression of AIDS in general. But repression, as we know from psychoanalysis, is the sign of great power. In this talk, Katz illustrates how AIDS has fundamentally shifted the American cultural landscape, exploring not only the manifold losses AIDS has inflicted, but also how, in response to both AIDS and the prejudice it engendered, a plague has rewritten both the form and content of American art. Delivered by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of Art AIDS America, and Director of Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY. Opening will be a spoken word performance by avery r young. Free and open to the public.
Disruption/Repression: How AIDS Changed America Panel (3 DEC 2016)
Medicine, politics, art, activism, sex, culture—everything in the US changed after the first reports of a mysterious illness in 1981. In the face of intense fear, repression, and prejudice, brave activists took to the streets in protest while enduring great loss; their goal was to create change, and ultimately, find compassion for the suffering and departed. This panel of an ACT-UP Chicago founder, artists, activists, scholars, and medical and museum professionals will discuss the response to HIV/AIDS at the height of the crisis, how it relates to today, and how it informs their work. The panel will feature Dr. Renslow Sherer, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago; Robert Vazquez-Pacheco, artist and member of Gran Fury; Peter Carpenter, Independent Choreographer and Associate Professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago; Mary Patten founding member of ACT UP Chicago and Professor in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Jeanne Kracher, Executive Director Crossroads Fund; and Stephanie Stebich, Executive Director, Tacoma Art Museum. The panel will be moderated by Lora Branch, long-time Public Health Advocate.
Condom Cloud performance by Joseph Ravens (3 DEC 2016)
Chicago-based Defibrillator Gallery Director Joseph Ravens presents Condom Cloud.