The Studio Museum in Harlem proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. The New York City premiere at the Whitney Museum will include a post-screening discussion with artists Milko Delgado, Imani Harrington, David Oscar Harvey, and Vasilios Papapitsios.

Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (US), David Oscar Harvey (US), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (US).

Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.

The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.”* Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deeper, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.

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

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.

In order to create a space that is most accessible and welcoming to those in our community who are immunocompromised, face coverings will be required to attend this event. All attendees ages two and older must wear face coverings that cover the nose and mouth.

This program is free to attend.

Accessibility

• Interactivity Level: Low
• Program Length: This activity runs from 4pm-6pm. The program will begin with a brief introduction of the participating artists and a screening of their work. Then, the panelists will engage in a moderated conversation. It will end with a Q&A from the audience. 

Accommodations

ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be available. If you would like more information about accessibility at this program, please contact education@studiomuseum.org or 332-240-3954.