VisualAIDS

Tainted Love reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

2009-07-13T15:14:02-04:00

From The Brooklyn Rail
July/August 2009

Tainted Love
by Kara L. Roney

Love is not about power. It is not about politics. It holds no stake in reason, activist articulation or abstraction—or at least that is what the literary romantics would have us believe. Love, in fact, is intimately connected to the above, its voice most powerfully manifest in its contribution to communal world-making and social reform.

On the evening of June 28, 1969, a riot broke out at the Mafia-owned Stonewall Inn, one of the sole refuges at that time for the gay community in New York City. Largely viewed as the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement, these demonstrations would become a touchstone for the gay faction in America, giving birth to a number of organizations that would, at first, advocate for gay rights and later agitate against the AIDS epidemic. Forty years later, Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam and Virginia Solomon, features works by a number of these organizations and collectives—among them General Idea, Gran Fury and fierce pussy—as well as individual artists intimately connected to the AIDS movement in some form. These artists, responding to the personal and communal devastation wrought by the epidemic, as well as the notion of love as a political animal, invoke the aesthetics of language, text, video, photography, and even the traditional platform of painting as activist signifiers. (continue reading here)

[Tainted Love closed June 28, 2009 at La MaMa La Galleria. For exhibition details and catalog click here)

image: Gran Fury, “RIOT,” 1988

Laurence Young - Open Studio

2009-07-13T11:26:22-04:00

L A U R E N C E Y O U N G
Open Studio
Figurative Paintings and Drawings

Saturday & Sunday July 25th -26th
10 AM to 4 PM

Provincetown
398 Commercial St. (rear)

www.laurenceyoung.com

Love and Justice in the Time of HIV and AIDS

2009-07-07T13:15:00-04:00

Love and Justice in the Time of HIV and AIDS:
The Current State of Affirming Faith Allies

Wednesday, July 8, 6:30 - 8:30

LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th St (btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC

FREE - Open to the public

For the July forum in "The Politics of HIV Prevention" series, as a part of the series of events produced by the NYC Faith in Action Coalition for AIDS Prevention, Care, & Education (NYCFI), and CHAMP will host a community conversation addressing the current state of faith-based efforts for HIV prevention in New York City.

This forum explores ongoing HIV prevention justice efforts and new directions for interfaith and intra-faith community responses to HIV/AIDS, particularly addressing structural issues driving the domestic epidemic such as homophobia and mass imprisonment. Come join in the conversation with leaders from local faith communities who are working to build affirming outreach and programs to address the root causes of vulnerability amongst their members and in their communities.

Co-sponsor (list in formation):
Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Conscious Contact of New York, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), The LGBT Community Center, the NYC AIDS Housing Network, the NYC Faith in Action Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Education, Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Unity Fellowship Church Movement, Latino Commission on AIDS Faith Movement, The Riverside Church Global HIV/AIDS Ministry, United Church of Christ HIV/AIDS Network

Contact Laura McTighe at CHAMP for more information: lmctighe@champnetwork.org
or 212-937-7955 x 20

Tainted Love closes Sunday, June 28, 2009.

2009-06-25T18:01:01-04:00

Tainted Love - Catch the Love before it's gone...
See what's being called a show "clearly made with love."

Tainted Love was reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter.
"This smart group exhibition, organized by Visual AIDS, which sponsors art shows that promote AIDS awareness and H.I.V.-prevention, is far more about bonds of affection than it is about fear of disease. Yet the curators, Steven Lam and Virginia Solomon, give equal time to queer art past and present, and there are surprisingly close correspondences between work done now and then, in the years when AIDS was more in the news and more central to gay identity." read more here

La MaMa La Galleria
6 East 1st Street

Exhibition continues thru Sunday, June 28, 2009
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1-6P

Directions:
La Galleria is at 6 E 1st Street, New York City, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue, (212) 505-2476. F, V to Second Avenue

Dancers Responding to AIDS - Fire Island Dance Fest

2009-06-25T17:50:37-04:00

Nelson Santos

Safer Sex in The City 2009

2009-06-23T14:54:21-04:00

Nelson Santos

2009 National LGBTI Health Summit

2009-06-23T11:34:42-04:00

This summer, Chicago will be playing host to the 2009 National LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex) Health Summit. Beginning August 14th and running through lunch on Tuesday the 18th, the Summit will focus on “Health Through the Life Course” and is dedicated to preserving and improving the emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual, psychological, environmental, and social health and wellness of LGBTI people of all races, ages, and professional/non professional backgrounds; from urban and rural settings; representing every socioeconomic class.

For more info visit www.2009lgbtihealth.org

Broadway Bares 19

2009-06-16T13:55:18-04:00

BROADWAY BARES 19.0 “CLICK IT!”
Presented by M·A·C VIVA GLAM

Sunday, June 21: 9:30 PM & Midnight
Roseland Ballroom
(239 West 52nd Street)

Tickets are on sale for the 2009 edition of BC/EFA's hotly anticipated summer event: Broadway Bares 19. Created in 1992 by Tony Award® winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray and Peep Show in Las Vegas), the event features the hottest male and female dancers on Broadway and has become one of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS' signature events.

Broadway Bares 19.0 “CLICK IT!” will have Broadway’s hottest boiz grabbing their hard drives and the grlz getting ready to play with some brand new software for what is sure to be a Broadway Bares that will fry more than your mother board. BROADWAY BARES 19.0 will have over 200 of Broadway’s hottest dancers bringing the information superhighway to life and will surely have all of New York a“twitter.”

Broadway Bares 19.0 “CLICK IT!” will take the stage at Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street) for two performances on Sunday June 21, 2009 at 9:30PM and Midnight.

Ticket prices begin at $55 and can be purchased by calling 212.840.0770 ext. 268 or by clicking here...

CerealArt Print Portfolio to benefit YouthAIDS, Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.

2009-06-16T13:47:04-04:00

Cerealart has published a print portfolio in an edition of 25 with works by Michael Bevilacqua, Jeremy Deller, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Simmons, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas and Kelley Walker as a benefit for YouthAIDS work in Uganda along with Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.

Each print is 16 x 20 inches and handsigned and numbered by the artist. The Portfolio of 7 works in an edition of 25 is cased in a linen box and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the organizations.

The war in Northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord's Resistance Army and the government of Uganda have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians displaced. Millions of children have been orphaned by AIDS and thousands of women die annually in childbirth. An entire generation has never known peace...

Cerealart is offering a 40% off coupon for your next Cerealart purchase when you purchase a Cerealart Benefit Portfolio, or when you donate $50.00 or more to our fundraising efforts. Discount on portfolio available until Midnight July 16th, 2009.

For more info visit Cerealart.com

Stonewall Was a Riot!

2009-06-15T12:15:39-04:00

Stonewall Was a Riot! Queer Riffs on Life Since 1969

Monday, June 22nd at the Stonewall Inn
53 Christopher Street. Doors open 7:30pm. Show starts 8pm.

Performers include: Staceyann Chin, Dred, Anthony Escobar, Holly Hughes,
Rosamond King, Lisa Kron, Chic & Sassy. MC: JZ Bich DJs: Sara Graham of Bust
Magazine and Daddy

Stonewall Was a Riot! celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
at the scene of the crime, kicks off Pride week 2009, and launches
OutHistory.org's "Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest." Stonewall Was a
Riot! is a fundraiser for OutHistory.org. The suggested minimum donation is
$20. Please RSVP to outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

Sex Positive - The Movie

2009-06-12T00:08:00-04:00

Sex Positive opens Friday June 12 at The Quad and plays for one week.

SEX POSITIVE explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M- hustler-turned-AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic as a community leader, demanding a solution to the problem before anyone else would pay attention. However, it was not Berkowitz' voice alone that sparked contention. More at www.sexpositive-themovie.com

Q&A's are Fri, Sat, and Sun at 7:45pm, and 9:45pm shows.

Reviews:
NY Magazine (Critics Pick)

Indiewire

Time Out

Filmmaker Magazine

Reme Hort Mann Foundation - Silent Auction

2009-06-11T06:02:00-04:00

A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ Artists
A fundraiser during gay pride week— open to everyone!

Wednesday, June 24, 6 - 9 pm
28 Wooster St (@ Grand St), Soho

Free wine and liquor bar + food
DJs Telfar and Nita Aviance
Silent Art Auction
$20 tickets, at-door only

100% of the proceeds from the sale of artworks support cancer patients and visual artists and the creation of a new fund to sponsor events, presentations and lectures by artists from the gay community

Artists include:assume vivid astro focus, Geoffrey Chadsey, Aziz + Cucher, Lucky Dellevue, Angela Dufresne, Nicole Eisenman, Tony Feher, Jeffrey Gibson, Anthony Goicolea, Erik Hanson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jim Hodges, Scott Hug, Terrence Koh, Paul Lee, Cary Leibowitz, Robert Melee, Donald Moffett, Slava Mogutin, Jack Pierson, Paul Henry Ramirez, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Billy Sullivan, Marc Swanson & Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Rob Wynne and more.

Reme Hort Foundation

Luis Carle - The Divine Journey

2009-06-10T17:57:00-04:00

Nelson Santos

Michael Lownie in Union Square, SF

2009-06-10T14:56:51-04:00

Michael Lownie's public sculpture, "Always Hope" is on display at Union Square (corner of Geary & Stockton) in San Francisco through September 2009. After that it will be installed in the lobby at Intel's World Headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

photo: David Yu

Hunter Reynolds @ Momenta Art

2009-06-10T14:23:07-04:00

Momenta Art is pleased to announce that Hunter Reynolds' show, Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter will be extended one week and will now close on June 22, 2009. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday, noon-6 PM.

Events
Thursday June 11, 8 PM
Fiddle Sticks, A Performance by Rafael Sánchez with Kathleen White & Zach Berkley on bass. Readings by Elias Comfort. Poems by Cilantro Joe. AND Stupid Spacy Dancing by Hunter Reynolds with gowns by Ethan Shoshan.

Friday June 12, 7 PM
Artist Talk with Hunter Reynolds

Sunday June 14, 3-6 PM
Hunter Reynolds will present a remote story-telling/conversation performance via Skype and a mini-documentary covering the hurricane and Reynolds' salvage efforts in his studio that was destroyed in 2005. His performance and his show at Momenta transform the wreckage and the artist's personal history into a testament of survival

Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.218.8058
www.momentaart.org