Its time! An installation, a talk and some fantastic videos from around the world.
On the 1st of December, World AIDS Day, I am happy to invite everyone to this little event, artist talk and installation opening.
Find all the details on the link:
https://www.mqw.at/en/program/day-without-art-2023-everyone-i-know-is-sick
Together with Visual AIDS, MuseumsQuartier is organizing Day With(out) Art 2023 for the first time in Austria.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit organization founded in 1989 that uses art to fight AIDS and supports HIV+ artists. Since 2010, artists have been commissioned annually to create video works that are then performed on 01.12. and beyond at museums, art institutions, schools, and AIDS organizations worldwide.
Day With(out) Art 2023 is titled Everyone I Know Is Sick and brings together video works by international artists that generate connections between HIV and other forms of illnesses and disability. The videos will be shown throughout December on a large screen in the MQ Showrooms.
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.
Christopher Klettermayer 