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Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING

12.01-12.03.2022

Virtual

The Studio Museum in Harlem is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and MOCA for Day With(out) Art 2022 to present Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV/AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV/AIDS across the world.

Watch Being & Belonging Now  >

The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (Mexico). For more information on the filmmakers, please visit Visual AIDS 

From navigating sex and intimacy, to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV/AIDS today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those who have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

On December 1, World AIDS Day, the Studio Museum will present Studio Screen, an all-day virtual stream of the films.

On December 3, the Studio Museum will livestream the Los Angeles premiere of Being & Belonging at the Museum of Contemporary Art .which will be followed by a conversation with artists Clifford Prince King and Davina “Dee” Conner, moderated by Visual AIDS Artist Engagement and Community Programs Manager (and Studio Museum Educator) Blake Paskal.

Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

These programs are free to attend. ASL Interpretation and close captions will be available.

Learn more about Day With(out) Art > 

Day with(out) Art 2022 Synopses

Camila Arce, Memoria Vertical

Camila Arce, Memoria Vertical, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Camila Arce presents a poem about the experience of being born with HIV and growing up as part of the first generation with access to antiretroviral medication in South America.


Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes, Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes, Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Davina “Dee” Conner was diagnosed with HIV in 1997. For eighteen years, she knew no one else who lived with HIV. As she emerged from isolation and internalized stigma, Davina sought to understand the journeys of other Black women living with HIV. Here they are. Listen to their voices.


Jaewon Kim, Nuance

Jaewon Kim, Nuance, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Through an unfolding collection of images, Nuance reflects the thoughts and feelings exchanged between the artist, who is living with HIV, and his HIV-negative partner.


Clifford Prince King, Kiss of Life

Clifford Prince King, Kiss of Life, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



In Kiss of Life, several Black people describe their experiences living with HIV. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection, and self-love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes.


Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Los Amarillos

Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Los Amarillos, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



In Colombia, many people living with HIV experience jaundice—the yellowing of the eyes and skin—as a side effect of the low-cost antiretroviral drugs supplied by the government. Los Amarillos addresses the alienation and hypervisibility faced as a result of this side effect.


Mikiki, Red Flags, a Love Letter

Mikiki, Red Flag, a Love Letter, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Through a cacophony of limbs, members, and sounds drawn from the party and play scenes, Mikiki speaks with other drug users about the possibilities of representing the pleasure of substance use beyond the framework of harm.


Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry, Lxs dxs bichudas

Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry, Lxs dxs bichudas, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Lxs dxs bichudas offers a poetic dance dialogue in Zapotec and Spanish that explores the ways in which race, gender, and geography shape the lives and bodies of people living with HIV in Mexico, a country marked by the ideological project of mestizaje.

Day with(out) Art 2022 Bios

Camila Arce

(she/her) is an artivista from Rosario, Argentina, who has been living with HIV since she was born twenty-seven years ago. She writes about her daily life and publishes poetry, and social, political, and economic commentary @sidiosa. Her work is committed to the needs and realities of women living with HIV, and above all, the experiences of verticales, those who were born with HIV or who seroconverted through breastfeeding. She is a fervent advocate for the release of drug patents and a HIV cure.


Davina “Dee” Conner

(she/her) is an HIV educator, podcast host, and international speaker who has been living with HIV since 1997. Her podcast, Pozitively Dee Discussions, won ADAP’s 2017 Leadership Award for working to dispel internalized stigma and change how society views HIV. Davina received the Persistent Advocacy Award from AIDS Watch in 2019, and has been featured in numerous magazines for her ongoing advocacy, including a&u, Positively Aware, Denver’s 5280, POZ Magazine, HIV Plus, and Health Stories Project. She works against HIV criminalization as a member of the Positive Justice Project; is a contributing writer for h-i-v.net; is a board member of Las Vegas Ryan White and Nevada's HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPPG). She is also the Creative Engagement Outreach Specialist for Prevention Access Campaign (U=U).


Karin Hayes

(she/her) is an award-winning documentary director and producer. Her credits include We’re Not Broke (Sundance Film Festival/iTunes), The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/CNN), Held Hostage in Colombia (History/SundanceTV), Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship (PBS/MPT), and the documentary series That Animal Rescue Show (Paramount+) and Truth and Power (Participant Media). She has also worked on projects for Supper Club, Film45, National Geographic, Discovery, and Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is a member of the Producers Guild (PGA), Film Fatales, and the International Documentary Association (IDA).


Jaewon Kim

(he/him) is a Korean artist currently based in Seoul, South Korea. Kim primarily works with video, photography, and installation to discuss the lives of queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS. Working from his personal experiences, Kim devises narratives that trace moments from the past and the future. Much of his work considers how the force of disease affects personal relationships. Recent solo exhibitions include Back then, If Bell Doesn’t Ring (2020), which dealt with specific locations and their connotations, and Romantic Fantasy (2021), which conflated the HIV virus with a romantic relationship. 


Clifford Prince King

(he/him) is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer Black man. King has recently exhibited work at Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles); Higher Pictures (New York City); Leslie Lohman Museum (New York City); Light Work (Syracuse, New York); MASS MoCA (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); Marc Selwyn Gallery (Beverly Hills); and Stars Gallery (Los Angeles). Publications carrying King’s images as commissioned work and features include ApertureDazedi-DT Magazinethe New York TimesViceVogue, and the Wall Street Journal. King was runner-up for the Robert Giard Emerging Artist Grant in 2020


Camilo Acosta Huntertexas

(he/him) is a visual artist born in Ibagué-Tolima, Colombia, with a focus on audiovisual projects, video editing, experimental video, VJ sets, and music video production. His video work has been exhibited in Spain, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and France, among others. He has also developed curatorial projects involving performance, video, and live arts in both conventional and unconventional spaces. Acosta is a cofounder and active member of the House of Tupamaras, a collective committed to research and creative production around issues of gender, performance, and public space. He is also part of the performance collective Street Jizz.


Santiago Lemus

(he/him) is an artist born in Sogamoso, Colombia. His interdisciplinary work uses organic matter, image, and sound to address the relationship between art, nature, and landscape through installations, interventions, performances, photography, and video. Lemus’s work has been exhibited in cities such as Bogotá, Barranquilla, and Berlin, among others. He is cofounder of Tomamos la Palabra, a collective that creates interventions in public spaces denouncing homophobia, transphobia, racism, and violence.


Mikiki

(they/them) is a performance and video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Their work has been presented. Their identity as a queer artist and activist has necessitated a porous boundary between what is labeled artmaking or activism versus “being” in the world. Mikiki has worked as a high school sexuality educator, a bathhouse attendant, drag karaoke hostess, in various capacities in the gay men's health and HIV response, and in harm reduction outreach and HIV testing literally all over Canada. Mikiki is irregularly found hosting their Golden Girls screening and queer cultural studies lecture series “Rose Beef.”






 





Jhoel Zempoalteca

(he/him) is a visual artist and educator born in Tlaxcala, Mexico. His work seeks to produce a counter-pedagogy by deconstructing the visual imaginaries surrounding dissident and seropositive experiences. Zempoalteca holds a BA in visual arts from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, or “La Esmeralda.” His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Guatemala, and Spain.


La Jerry 

(they/them) is a nonbinary folk dancer born and raised in Juchitan, Mexico. They have participated in numerous folk dance gatherings and festivals in Mexico. They are currently developing their drag persona from their perspective as a nonbinary, racialized, and seropositive folk dancer, challenging the heteronormativity that governs social and cultural representations of Mexico.

day with(out) Art 2022 funders credits

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Learning and Engagement programs are supported by the Thompson Foundation Education Fund; Van Cleef & Arpels; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; Con Edison; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; Sony Music Group; and Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

           

Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING & BELONGING

12.01-12.03.2022

Virtual

The Studio Museum in Harlem is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and MOCA for Day With(out) Art 2022 to present Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV/AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV/AIDS across the world.

Watch Being & Belonging Now  >

The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (Mexico). For more information on the filmmakers, please visit Visual AIDS 

From navigating sex and intimacy, to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV/AIDS today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those who have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

On December 1, World AIDS Day, the Studio Museum will present Studio Screen, an all-day virtual stream of the films.

On December 3, the Studio Museum will livestream the Los Angeles premiere of Being & Belonging at the Museum of Contemporary Art .which will be followed by a conversation with artists Clifford Prince King and Davina “Dee” Conner, moderated by Visual AIDS Artist Engagement and Community Programs Manager (and Studio Museum Educator) Blake Paskal.

Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

These programs are free to attend. ASL Interpretation and close captions will be available.

Learn more about Day With(out) Art > 

Day with(out) Art 2022 Synopses

Camila Arce, Memoria Vertical

Camila Arce, Memoria Vertical, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Camila Arce presents a poem about the experience of being born with HIV and growing up as part of the first generation with access to antiretroviral medication in South America.


Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes, Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes, Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Davina “Dee” Conner was diagnosed with HIV in 1997. For eighteen years, she knew no one else who lived with HIV. As she emerged from isolation and internalized stigma, Davina sought to understand the journeys of other Black women living with HIV. Here they are. Listen to their voices.


Jaewon Kim, Nuance

Jaewon Kim, Nuance, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Through an unfolding collection of images, Nuance reflects the thoughts and feelings exchanged between the artist, who is living with HIV, and his HIV-negative partner.


Clifford Prince King, Kiss of Life

Clifford Prince King, Kiss of Life, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



In Kiss of Life, several Black people describe their experiences living with HIV. Raw conversations surrounding disclosure, rejection, and self-love are expressed through visual poetry and dreamscapes.


Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Los Amarillos

Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas, Los Amarillos, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



In Colombia, many people living with HIV experience jaundice—the yellowing of the eyes and skin—as a side effect of the low-cost antiretroviral drugs supplied by the government. Los Amarillos addresses the alienation and hypervisibility faced as a result of this side effect.


Mikiki, Red Flags, a Love Letter

Mikiki, Red Flag, a Love Letter, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Through a cacophony of limbs, members, and sounds drawn from the party and play scenes, Mikiki speaks with other drug users about the possibilities of representing the pleasure of substance use beyond the framework of harm.


Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry, Lxs dxs bichudas

Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry, Lxs dxs bichudas, 2022. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Being & Belonging 



Lxs dxs bichudas offers a poetic dance dialogue in Zapotec and Spanish that explores the ways in which race, gender, and geography shape the lives and bodies of people living with HIV in Mexico, a country marked by the ideological project of mestizaje.

Day with(out) Art 2022 Bios

Camila Arce

(she/her) is an artivista from Rosario, Argentina, who has been living with HIV since she was born twenty-seven years ago. She writes about her daily life and publishes poetry, and social, political, and economic commentary @sidiosa. Her work is committed to the needs and realities of women living with HIV, and above all, the experiences of verticales, those who were born with HIV or who seroconverted through breastfeeding. She is a fervent advocate for the release of drug patents and a HIV cure.


Davina “Dee” Conner

(she/her) is an HIV educator, podcast host, and international speaker who has been living with HIV since 1997. Her podcast, Pozitively Dee Discussions, won ADAP’s 2017 Leadership Award for working to dispel internalized stigma and change how society views HIV. Davina received the Persistent Advocacy Award from AIDS Watch in 2019, and has been featured in numerous magazines for her ongoing advocacy, including a&u, Positively Aware, Denver’s 5280, POZ Magazine, HIV Plus, and Health Stories Project. She works against HIV criminalization as a member of the Positive Justice Project; is a contributing writer for h-i-v.net; is a board member of Las Vegas Ryan White and Nevada's HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPPG). She is also the Creative Engagement Outreach Specialist for Prevention Access Campaign (U=U).


Karin Hayes

(she/her) is an award-winning documentary director and producer. Her credits include We’re Not Broke (Sundance Film Festival/iTunes), The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/CNN), Held Hostage in Colombia (History/SundanceTV), Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship (PBS/MPT), and the documentary series That Animal Rescue Show (Paramount+) and Truth and Power (Participant Media). She has also worked on projects for Supper Club, Film45, National Geographic, Discovery, and Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is a member of the Producers Guild (PGA), Film Fatales, and the International Documentary Association (IDA).


Jaewon Kim

(he/him) is a Korean artist currently based in Seoul, South Korea. Kim primarily works with video, photography, and installation to discuss the lives of queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS. Working from his personal experiences, Kim devises narratives that trace moments from the past and the future. Much of his work considers how the force of disease affects personal relationships. Recent solo exhibitions include Back then, If Bell Doesn’t Ring (2020), which dealt with specific locations and their connotations, and Romantic Fantasy (2021), which conflated the HIV virus with a romantic relationship. 


Clifford Prince King

(he/him) is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer Black man. King has recently exhibited work at Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles); Higher Pictures (New York City); Leslie Lohman Museum (New York City); Light Work (Syracuse, New York); MASS MoCA (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); Marc Selwyn Gallery (Beverly Hills); and Stars Gallery (Los Angeles). Publications carrying King’s images as commissioned work and features include ApertureDazedi-DT Magazinethe New York TimesViceVogue, and the Wall Street Journal. King was runner-up for the Robert Giard Emerging Artist Grant in 2020


Camilo Acosta Huntertexas

(he/him) is a visual artist born in Ibagué-Tolima, Colombia, with a focus on audiovisual projects, video editing, experimental video, VJ sets, and music video production. His video work has been exhibited in Spain, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and France, among others. He has also developed curatorial projects involving performance, video, and live arts in both conventional and unconventional spaces. Acosta is a cofounder and active member of the House of Tupamaras, a collective committed to research and creative production around issues of gender, performance, and public space. He is also part of the performance collective Street Jizz.


Santiago Lemus

(he/him) is an artist born in Sogamoso, Colombia. His interdisciplinary work uses organic matter, image, and sound to address the relationship between art, nature, and landscape through installations, interventions, performances, photography, and video. Lemus’s work has been exhibited in cities such as Bogotá, Barranquilla, and Berlin, among others. He is cofounder of Tomamos la Palabra, a collective that creates interventions in public spaces denouncing homophobia, transphobia, racism, and violence.


Mikiki

(they/them) is a performance and video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Their work has been presented. Their identity as a queer artist and activist has necessitated a porous boundary between what is labeled artmaking or activism versus “being” in the world. Mikiki has worked as a high school sexuality educator, a bathhouse attendant, drag karaoke hostess, in various capacities in the gay men's health and HIV response, and in harm reduction outreach and HIV testing literally all over Canada. Mikiki is irregularly found hosting their Golden Girls screening and queer cultural studies lecture series “Rose Beef.”






 





Jhoel Zempoalteca

(he/him) is a visual artist and educator born in Tlaxcala, Mexico. His work seeks to produce a counter-pedagogy by deconstructing the visual imaginaries surrounding dissident and seropositive experiences. Zempoalteca holds a BA in visual arts from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, or “La Esmeralda.” His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Guatemala, and Spain.


La Jerry 

(they/them) is a nonbinary folk dancer born and raised in Juchitan, Mexico. They have participated in numerous folk dance gatherings and festivals in Mexico. They are currently developing their drag persona from their perspective as a nonbinary, racialized, and seropositive folk dancer, challenging the heteronormativity that governs social and cultural representations of Mexico.

day with(out) Art 2022 funders credits

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Learning and Engagement programs are supported by the Thompson Foundation Education Fund; Van Cleef & Arpels; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; Con Edison; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; Sony Music Group; and Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

           

Virtual