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Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS

This logo shows white and red text against a black background intersected by two white diagonal arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down. The text reads: “Visual AIDS presents” in white, then “Transmissions” in red with an “x” through the letter “o,” followed by “Day With(out) Art 2020.”

Special Event

The Harvard Art Museums are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world, including Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Charan Singh (India/U.K.), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).

The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of the global AIDS epidemic, but it 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) as part of a special online screening event hosted by Visual AIDS and supported by the Harvard Art Museums. A live Q&A with the commissioned artists will follow the screening. Please click here to RSVP and receive updates about the event.

Beginning December 1, the video program will be available to view online at visualaids.org/transmissions.

Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.