Name: Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
Start: 2023-12-01T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-12-01
Location: Institute of Contemporary Art

Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick

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Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick is a screening of 5 videos generating connections between HIV & other forms of illness.

The Insitute of Contemporary Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes &amp; Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina &amp; Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics.Do you have anyone you would like to memorialize or celebrate? Send an image and a brief description to us at hello@ica.upenn.edu with the subject “Day With(Out) Art 2023” for an opportunity to contribute to our communal altar. RegistrationSubtitles will be provided on all films. If you require any accessibility accommodations or have any questions about the program, please contact Brittany Clottey at <a href="mailto:bclottey@ica.upenn.edu" title="mailto:bclottey@ica.upenn.edu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bclottey@ica.upenn.edu.</a>About the filmsDolissa Medina and Ananias P. Soria, Viejito/Enfermito/Grito (Old Man/Sick Man/Shout)Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos (the Dance of the Old Men). Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, where the dance originates, Ananias interprets its movements through the lens of his spirituality, his long-term HIV-related disabilities, and his search for a place in the world.Dorothy Cheung, Heart MurmursHeart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. In reflecting on his experience living with a congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, Dean expresses his sense of self in the face of regular medical challenges.Beau Gomez, This Bed I MadeThis Bed I Made presents the bed as a place of solace and agency beyond just a site of illness or isolation. Through the shared stories of two Filipino men living with HIV, the video explores modes of care, restoration, and abundance in the midst of pandemic pervasion.Kurt Weston, Losing the LightLosing the Light reflects the artist’s bitter battle to stay in this world as a long-term survivor of AIDS who has lost his vision to CMV retinitis. An experimental self-portrait, the video evokes the dissolution and fragmentation of the artist’s body, representing the impact of blindness, long-term HIV infection, and the cumulative effects of decades of antiretroviral medication.Lili Nascimento and Hiura Fernandes, Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$)That Child with AID$ tells the story of Brazilian advocate and artist Lili Nascimento, who was born with HIV in 1990. Lili has worked to expand narratives about living with HIV beyond the limited images and ideologies that permeate the AIDS industry.SupportVisual 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.Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft &amp; Jacob W. Doft, Hilarie L. &amp; Mitchell Morgan, and by Dana McDonald Strong &amp; Mark W. Strong.

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