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Keith Haring - Ludwig Museum

2008-08-14T15:52:53-04:00

Keith Haring: Untitled, 1982 Copyright

August 15-November 16, 2008

Museum of Contemporary Art
PALACE OF ARTS
H-1095 Budapest,
Komor Marcell u. 1.

Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world.

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest contributes to the celebration with a unique exhibition organized in co-operation with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York. It will be the first time that such a comprehensive overview on his oeuvre is exhibited in Hungary, which is fascinatingly rich and multifaceted, although it embraces merely a decade.

Haring's characteristic figures, the 'radiant baby' and the 'barking dog' are well-known to millions of people. He developed this easily recognizable style (based on line) as a means of expression first in the New York Metro system by drawing on empty advertisement spaces. He was inspired by the work of graffiti artists and hip hop culture. Several other trends and artistic strategies also influenced his work, from Abstract Expressionism to Andy Warhol and Pop Art. Although he used various materials and surfaces – paper, waterproof canvas, huge mural surfaces, cars or even human bodies – he always created his paintings and drawings with a single light gesture, without making sketches or corrections.

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Activist T-shirts from the IAC

2008-08-08T17:05:00-04:00

photos by Ted Kerr

I heart Pato's Corpus! - by Ted Kerr

2008-08-08T16:51:00-04:00

Ted Kerr reports from the International AIDS Conference
via AIDS 2008 Blog
Sun, 08/03/2008

"I want to Survive in the Millions"-Jamie Cortez Editors Note for Corpus 1

Let’s face it -- I am in love with Patrick ‘Pato’ Herbert. But before you think that I am about to move to California where Pato works with AIDS Project Los Angles and get gay married to him (where gays can now get married…for now), I should say that I don’t really know him beyond having heard him speak at the ART/AIDS.WORK conference in NY and at the MSM Global Forum here in Mexico city. It is his cultural work that makes me swoon.

His triumph, his eau de OHH! is a collectively created magazine for and by gay and bi men that he works on and coordinates called Corpus. Since 2003, the privately funded somewhat bilingual glossy magazine that features a published collage of both established writers and artists with emerging voices has been mixing prevention with culture and expression with awareness. The latest edition, Corpus 7 with a focus on male queer lust, love and life internationally, including images from photographer Sunil Gupta (image) and guest edited by Tony Quan from the Australia Federation of AIDS Organizations was being exclusively distributed at the MSM Global Forum earlier this week.

To get an idea of Corpus think My Space meets what AdBusters use to be, picture the spirit of the best community zines with the design of a great euro mag. It is unfussy yet professional, it is sex positive and treats HIV/AIDS as it deserves to be; a consideration, a reality, anentity, an integral part of a queer man’s thought process.

Never hitting you over the head with ideas on human rights or social justice, it instead implies it through a diversity of voices, mediums, subjects and points of view while always being considerate that literacy is as pectrum and above all else the medium is the message.

If a man who because he is either or both a racial, social, sexual minority feels under-heard, under-represented gets a copy of Corpus in his hands, not only does it communicate that he is worthy of such a well-made,rigorously created piece of cultural production, he further understands that he is desirable on his own terms by opening up the magazine and seeing someonel ike him represented.

In the session during the MSM Global Forum that Pato and Andy Quan gave on Corpus as an example of cultural production as a response to HIV there was some discussion on the term ‘cultural production’ in place of the word art. From this discussion emerged something from Quan’s mouth that I have always thought about as my own work being an artist of residence, but had never been put into words.

He said: “I choose to think about culture production not as creating a product but rather, through HIV/AIDS and our response to it we are producing a culture; a queer culture, a culture for all of us”

To see Corpus online: http://www.apla.org/publications/publications.html

visit AIDS2008.com for more reports from the International AIDS Conference

The Politics of Memory - by Alan Gilbert

2008-08-07T17:06:18-04:00

The following is a review of the SIDE X SIDE exhibition and reading.

The Politic of Memory
Alan Gilbert

via The Poetry Foundation

Dean Daderko is an imaginative and adventurous independent curator working in New York City. A few years back, he turned the living room of his ground-floor Brooklyn apartment into one of the more interesting alternative art spaces in the city.

Parlour Projects hosted solo and multi-artist shows, performances, screenings, even a reading group. Parlour Projects is closed, but Daderko continues to curate various exhibitions around the city. His most recent one, sponsored by Visual AIDS and held at La MaMa La Galleria, was entitled SIDE X SIDE, and featured work by Lower East Side-affiliated artists Scott Burton, Kate Huh, Nicholas Moufarrege, Martin Wong, and Carrie Yamaoka.

As Daderko writes in his curator’s statement: “The exhibition considers the impact of AIDS on a generation of artists faced with the onset of the epidemic” (Burton, Moufarrege, and Wong all died of AIDS-related causes). Not by coincidence, the art on display prominently featured different modes of inscription: whether literally in text incorporated into pieces by Huh, Moufarrege, and Wong, or more implicitly in Yamaoka’s etched-glass work. While Burton’s video INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR TABLEAUX (1980) doesn’t include text, it’s record of a male figure enacting precise formal movements illustrates the way in which power is able to script itself onto the body, and why for queer activists and feminists alike, the body is a fundamental site of conflict and resistance.

Thus, it made sense that there would be an accompanying reading, and last night Huh, Sara Marcus, and Eileen Myles each presented work to a large group of artists, writers, curators, and activists filling the gallery...

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photo of audience at SIDE X SIDE reading by Dean Daderko

XVII International AIDS Conference Updates

2008-08-03T03:01:00-04:00

The XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, will be held August 3-8, 2008.

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SIDE X SIDE - Readings by Kate Huh, Sara Marcus and Eileen Myles

2008-07-31T13:24:58-04:00

Please join Visual AIDS and La MaMa La Galleria for an evening of readings by Kate Huh, Sara Marcus, and Eileen Myles.

Monday, August 4, 6:30-8:00 PM

La MaMa La Galleria
6 E. 1st Street, New York City
between Bowery & 2nd Avenue

This is also the closing night of SIDE X SIDE.

Kate Huh is a NYC based artist/activist. She has exhibited her visual art and films throughout the United States and Europe since 1982. Her work is currently on exhibit in SIDE X SIDE. She is the creator of the zine Rebel Fux!. Her film titles include; Rebel Fux! The Movie 2000, Market This (produced in collaboration with the Paper Tiger TV collective) 2001, Punk Ass Kid 2003 and War Dreams 2007. She is currently the Co-Director of MIX NYC, the Queer Experimental Film Festival.

Sara Marcus's poetry, prose, criticism, and journalism appear in Encyclopedia, EOAGH, Tantalum, The Advocate, The Forward, and Time Out New York. She is writing a history of Riot Grrrl and has work forthcoming in The Art of Touring (Yeti Press), The Believer, an exhibition catalogue for sculptor Wade Kavanaugh, and a poetry chapbook from Felt Press. She is the curator of the series QT: Queer Readings at Dixon Place. Marcus lives in Brooklyn and Troy, NY.

Eileen Myles is currently poet of the dunes, but otherwise is poet of the blocks and avenues and lives in the Lower East Side since 1977. Her book of travels, art, poetry and queerness, The Importance of Being Iceland is out from Semiotexte/MIT next fall. She's also written a knockout novel The Inferno that is forthcoming.

photos: (L-R) Kate Huh, Sara Marcus (by Carolyn Berk), Eileen Myles

Eric Rhein - Leaves

2008-07-30T15:48:00-04:00

Eric Rhein
Leaves

June - September, 2008
Reception: Thursday, August 7, 6-7 PM

The Center
The Powsner Room, First Floor
208 W 13th St., New York, NY

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is currently presenting a selection of work from Eric Rhein's Leaves as part of their 25th anniversary celebration.

Statement about Leaves:

Leaves, conceived by Eric Rhein in the fall of 1996 at the MacDowell Artists Colony, pays tribute to people he has known who died of complications from AIDS. The work, which began with tributes to 80 individuals, now numbers more than 180, mirroring the ongoing AIDS epidemic.

Leaves has been presented in both public and private institutions, such as the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada; The Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase; The Memphis College of Art; the American Folk Art Museum in New York; and the Ambassadorial Residence in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

For more information visit www.ericrhein.com

Image: Eric Rhein, Leaves-Gathering of 35 (Detail), wire & paper, 1998-2005

Laurence Young

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Laurence Young
Obscuring the Line

August 1-14, 2008
Opening: Friday, August 1, 7-9 PM

Alden Gallery
423 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA

Carmine Santaniello

2008-07-30T15:17:00-04:00

CARMINE SANTANIELLO
Selected Monoprints and Hybrids

August 15 - Sept 6, 2008
Opening: Friday August 15, 7-9pm

Alliance Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center
37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY
845-252-7576

Jerry Frost

2008-07-30T13:13:00-04:00

Jerry Frost

July 28-Sept 12
Reception: August 9, 3-5pm

LGBT Center
3rd floor lobby and room 301 main Gallery
1800 Market Street, San Francisco

The AIDS Ride on the Logo Network

2008-07-29T13:40:00-04:00

The AIDS Ride airs follow the stories of a diverse group of cyclists taking part in the seven-day, 585-mile race AIDS/Lifecycle 4 annual race, as they struggle in the fight against HIV and AIDS. This reality/documentary series offers an in-depth look at some of this year's participants, the reasons they've chosen to undertake this challenge, and the important and inspirational people in their lives who serve as their inspiration. AIDS Rides airs on the Logo Network.

Click here for the AIDS Ride blog.

Witness - Human Rights Issues and HIV/AIDS

2008-07-28T13:36:00-04:00

Why is it important to understand the intersection of HIV/AIDS and violence against women (VAW) and what makes it a human rights issue? Neelanjana Mukhia, of ActionAid, is in an excellent position to address this question: she coordinates Women Won't Wait. End HIV/AIDS and VAW. Now! Campaign.

This interview was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and their event Human Rights for Women; Human Rights for All. The event, which coincided with the UN's Global Status of Women conference, celebrated the the depth and diversity of the women’s movement and honored the commitment of women’s human rights defenders around the world.

For more information and to view other Human Rights videos, visit The Hub at Witness.org

HIV Films at SnagFilms

2008-07-28T13:35:00-04:00

SnagFilms is a brand new site that was created to provide a forum for documentary films that may not have yet reached their potential audience, and promote social causes to a worldwide audience.

SnagFilms promotes a number of documentary films pertaining to health issues. Two HIV/AIDS advocacy films are We Are Together and Alicia in Africa, Journey to the Motherland. The former follows Alicia Keys as she travels across Africa in 2006 during her month-long journey, meeting people bravely living with HIV, while the latter tells the story of a group of children in the Agape Choir in South Africa, who use music to overcome hardship after losing their parents to AIDS.

For more information and to see other films, visit SnagFilms

Condomunity.com

2008-07-27T13:34:00-04:00

Condomunity hopes to improve the “condom experience” and establish a friendly and informative community, by 1.) Providing information about condoms in a trendier and more entertaining way 2.) Inviting everyone to join the condomunity and to talk, discuss and create 3.) Keep you posted about the world of condoms.

SIDE X SIDE - reviewed in The NY Times

2008-07-25T11:53:13-04:00

The New York Times review of SIDE X SIDE by Holland Cotter
Friday, July 25, 2008

“Side x Side” at La MaMa La Galleria includes work by three Wojnarowicz contemporaries who died of the disease — Scott Burton (1939-1989), Nicolas Moufarrege (1947-1985) and Martin Wong (1946-1999) — and by two other artists, Kate Huh and Carrie Yamaoka, whose work registered its impact.

Organized by Dean Daderko for Visual AIDS, a nonprofit organization that tries to increase public awareness of AIDS through the visual arts, the show is sparely and lovingly installed. Ms. Yamaoka, a longtime gay activist, contributes abstract pieces from the 1990s made of mirrors with the reflective coating ripped away. From Ms. Huh comes a tiny but potent zine that catches the punky, street-level-apocalypse energy that this part of town once generated.

It’s great to see Mr. Moufarrege’s witty embroidered paintings here, turning art history into pop culture. His “Truth About John the Baptist,” with its hulking superhero, Arabic script (it reads, “My father taught me Arabic calligraphy”) and child floating in a pool of pink glitter, looks just right today. So does Mr. Wong’s “Sweet Oblivion” (1983). It’s the most beautiful painting of the Lower East Side I know of, and it’s an image of a time and place that now exist only in art and memories.