Name: Viral Interventions
Start: 2022-06-22T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Anthology Film Archives

Viral Interventions

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Six new artist videos exploring HIV realities produced through the Toronto-based residency Viral Interventions

Anthology Film Archives

BROADCAST | Summer Screening Series

Visual AIDS presents BROADCAST, a free summer screening series featuring contemporary artists’ responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis through the medium of video. More info at visualaids.org/broadcast

Visual AIDS presents the US premiere of Viral Interventions, a program of six new artist videos produced in Toronto. The program features work by Zachary Longboy, Lesley Chan, Samuel Lopez &amp; Christian Hui, Mikiki, Andrew Zealley, and Esery Mondesir.In 1991, a loose network of Toronto artists, grassroots activists and community groups collaborated on an innovative public access cable series entitled Toronto Living with AIDS—and were eventually shut down because of "too much thigh stroking." These half-hour, no-budget tapes were some of the first in Canada to give voice to communities living with AIDS: fighting the government, fighting big pharma, fighting for our lives.Thirty years later, in the grip of our new pandemic, Viral Interventions continues this work with a new generation of Toronto artists and activists. Viral Interventions is a three-year York University research project and residency (funded by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), with cohorts of artists and activists coming together every month to workshop stories, trade ideas and create new urgent videos about living with HIV today.Intimate, passionate, irreverent, angry, experimental, unabashedly beautiful, inventively radical, brimming with loss and joy — these new works by Longboy, Chan, Mikiki, Lopez/Hui, Zealley and Mondesir plunge us inside six extraordinary stories, exploring HIV realities — in our worlds and in our bodies.

<h1>Screening Program</h1>Runtime: approx. 68 minutesAndrew Zealley, Becoming Mighty Real, 2022An intergenerational HIV-magnetic couple talk about music, doctors, U=U and desire. (10 min)Mikiki, smokescreengrab, 2022A queer artist comes out as HIV positive to his Mi’kmaq grandma in Newfoundland. (11 min)Samuel Lopez &amp; Christian Hui, Walking in These Shoes, 2022 A tribute to HIV-positive activist and fashionista Derek “Dyee’ Yee, who passed in 2021. (12 min)Lesley Chan, Unfinished, 2022An archival restoration/deconstruction of Lloyd Wong’s ‘lost’ 1991 AIDS tape. (13 min)Zachery Longboy, Guardian of Sleep, 2022 A visual poem about Indigenous pride, batons, caribou, and living with HIV and Parkinson&#x27;s. (12 min)Esery Mondesir, Of What Death We Die, 2022A 26 year-old man becomes gravely ill and dies of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti. Meanwhile, health authorities name Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs and heroin users as four groups who are dying in New York, San Francisco and Toronto. Why put the Haitians in a separate group? (10 min)

This screening is part of BROADCAST, a free summer screening series featuring contemporary artists’ responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis through the medium of video. BROADCAST features six unique screenings from June 8–July 9 at venues across New York City. Full details are available at <a href="https://visualaids.org/events/detail/broadcast-summer-screening-series" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">visualaids.org/broadcast</a>.
Andrew Zealley, ﻿Becoming Mighty Real﻿, 2022. Video still courtesy of the artist

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