Special documentary about AIDS will screen all over the city on World AIDS Day
Multiple venues
Thursday, December 1
Admission: free
www.thebody.com
www.creativetime.org/daywithoutart
www.worldaidsday.org
For the twenty-third annual World AIDS Day, which provides “an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show their support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate people who have died,” artists and filmmakers Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, and Encke King have joined together to make the hour-long Untitled, a montage that documents the history of AIDS activism, inspired by the life and career of influential artist Félix González-Torres, who died of AIDS in 1996. The film will be screened for free at museums and other arts venues all over the country as part of Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day. The film will be shown at a number of venues in New York City, including the IFC Center, where Creative Time will host a panel discussion at 7:45 (advance RSVP required) with Malik Gaines, Shanti Avirgan, and Che Gossett, moderated by Nato Thompson. You can also catch the film at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea, the Whitney, La Galleria at La MaMa, the Museum of Arts & Design, Housing Works, the New Museum, the School of Visual Arts, the Gladstone Gallery (in conjunction with Hodges’s current exhibit), the Brooklyn Museum, Exit Art (with guest speakers Zachary Barnett and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis), the Grey Art Gallery, and at Participant Inc. on the Lower East Side, where Justin Vivian Bond, whose exhibition “The Fall of the House of Whimsy” is on view there through December 18, will perform a song accompanying the screening. In addition, Visual AIDS has put together an extensive resource guide about the film, including “Suggestions for Engagement,” an HIV/AIDS timeline and alphabetical vocabulary, important links, and other information “in an effort to honor the sense of endlessness that Untitled suggests [and] for provoking both public and private conversation.”