We invite you on Friday December 1st at 3pm Everyone I Know Is Sick, a showcase curated by VisualAids, screened at PUBLICS co hosted with Danai Anagnostou Head Producer at Kenno Films.  

PUBLICS partners with @visual_aids for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

The program features new work by Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento.

A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. Because AIDS is not over!

BIO

Visual AIDS
Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.

In 1989 Visual AIDS presented the first Day Without Art, organizing museums and art institutions nationwide to cover up their artwork, darken their galleries, and even close for the day to symbolically represent the loss of life and art due to AIDS.

Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative annual project in which organizations worldwide present exhibitions, screenings, and public programs to highlight work by HIV+ artists and artwork addressing current issues around the ongoing AIDS pandemic.

In 2014, Visual AIDS began commissioning short videos from artists and filmmakers, and has screened and distributed these videos as part of Day With(out) Art every year since. This website provides a complete archive of videos commissioned by Visual AIDS.

https://dwa.visualaids.org/

Kenno Filmi
Kenno Filmi is a co-operative production house in Helsinki, proposing reconfigurations of film and media art production practices through creative exchanges.
Kenno Filmi was founded by Danai Anagnostou, Elena Näsänen, Christopher L. Thomas, and Martta Tuomaala in 2019.

https://kennofilmi.com/