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LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S. Wentworth Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI 53207\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cactus Club </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is proud to partner with</span> <a href="http://visualaids.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visual AIDS</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ENDURING CARE</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by </span><b>Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><b> J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">From histories of harm reduction and prison activism to the long-term effects of HIV medication, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ENDURING CARE</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> centers stories of collective care, mutual aid, and solidarity while pointing to the negligence of governments and non-profits.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The program’s title suggests a dual meaning, honoring the perseverance and commitment of care workers yet also addressing the potential for harm from medications and healthcare providers. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ENDURING CARE</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> disrupts the assumption that an epidemic can be solved with pharmaceuticals alone, recasting community work as a lasting form of medicine.</span> December 5th | 1pm | Free <span style="font-weight: 400;">Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.</span> "For Day With(out) Art 2021, Visual AIDS presents <em>ENDURING CARE</em>, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by <strong>Katherine Cheairs</strong>, <strong>Cristóbal Guerra</strong>, <strong>Danny Kilbride</strong>, <strong>Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey</strong>, <strong>Beto Pérez</strong>, <strong>Steed Taylor</strong>, and <strong>J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project</strong>. Video Synopsis: <strong>Katherine Cheairs, <em>Voices at the Gate</em></strong> <em>Voices at the Gate</em> juxtaposes the bucolic landscapes inhabited by women’s prisons with archival and contemporary audio recordings of poems, essays, and interviews produced by women of color in the early 19990s at the intersection of incarceration and HIV & AIDS activism. <strong>Cristóbal Guerra, <em>Nobleza(s) de Sangre</em></strong> Two fragmented interviews with artists living with HIV in Puerto Rico mediate an audiovisual invocation of the late Boricua poet Manuel Ramos Otero who passed away from complications of the virus in 1990. Guerra sets out to translate work Manuel deemed untranslatable, investigating the ongoing passions that informed his work. <strong>Danny Kilbride, <em>The Mersey Model</em></strong> Danny Kilbride interviews Professor John Ashton, a public health official who helped institute the Mersey Model of Harm Reduction in Liverpool in 1986, the first government-funded needle exchange program in the UK. <strong>Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, <em>#Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex</em></strong> A chronicle of Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad’s 2017 medication strike against the Mazzoni Center, a LGBT health clinic in Philadelphia, and the direct action campaign by the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative that preceded it <strong>Beto Pérez, <em>In the Future</em></strong> <em>In the Future</em> tells the stories of people living with HIV in Mexico who have been unable to access treatment because of government corruption and widespread theft and looting of medication. <strong>Steed Taylor<em>, I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor</em></strong> Through a chorus of voices, Steed Taylor explores the difficulties of being a long-term AIDS survivor and the unexpected health problems facing many senior survivors. <strong>J Triangular and the Women's Video Support Project, <em>滴水希望 (Hope Drops)</em></strong> A collaborative video project made with women living in Taiwan who use their cameras to process stress and stigma, and to share their experiences living with HIV.   <strong>This Screening was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of The Queer Curatorial Fund of the UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres and Carl Bogner</strong>   To learn more about Visual Aids please visit: <a href="http://www.visualaids.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.visualaids.org</span></a>
SUMMARY:Day Without Art: Enduring Care
ORGANIZER:Cactus Club
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