VisualAIDS

Call for films, performance and installations related to HIV/AIDS

 

Call for projects

VIHsion
An HIV/AIDS film festival
2nd edition
november 2010

VIHsion is in search of short films addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS for its 2nd edition, which will be held in November 2010 in Montreal, Théâtre Ste-Catherine, 260 rue Ste-Catherine Est. All formats and genres are welcome.

Also this year, we are looking for performances, installations and conferences addressing the issue to HIV/AIDS. Feel free to submit your projects.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION EXTENDED November 8th 2010
procedure and form for submission

Questions or comments/Contact
info@vihsion.com

To Believe - Closing Reception & Performances

To Believe
Closing Reception
Performance by Ben Judd
Performance by Blanko & Noiry
Sunday June 27 • 4 - 8 PM



London based artist Ben Judd will premiere a new performance created specifically for To Believe.  Through video and performance, Judd explores his relationship to specific groups and individuals who have their own rules and belief systems. Part of his interest in these belief systems is to position himself as both participant and observer when making the work, and to test the extent and nature of his own beliefs and preconceptions.



Blanko & Noiry  a trio consisting of To Believe artist Frank Haines with legendary electronic music innovator Chris Kachulis and Reuben Lorch-Miller will be performing a musical set where Kachulis channels songs he wrote in 1969.  Blanko & Noiry combine occult ritual, electronic dissonance, and art history to create a spectacle of sound and performance.

All events are free and at La MaMa La Galleria.

La MaMa La Galleria
6 E 1st Street, New York City, between Bowery  & 2nd Avenue
Hours: Thursday - Sunday 1 - 6 pm


ARTCAT Top Pick!

To Believe CLOSES on Sunday, June 27, 2010
Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak for Visual AIDS
David Cannon Dashiell, Robert Flack, Frank Haines, Rachel Harrison, Ben Judd, Susan MacWilliam, Joanna Malinowska, Shana Moulton, Bede Murphy, Jeanine Oleson, Clifford Smith, Spirit Tours (Dave Hardy & Siebren Versteeg), Scott Treleaven

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy -- because AIDS IS NOT OVER! www.visualAIDS.org


images: Courtesy of the artists

To Believe

To Believe
Thursday, June 3 from 6-9 PM: Reception and Performances
Sunday, June 6 from 4-6 PM: Screenings



Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak for Visual AIDS
David Cannon Dashiell, Robert Flack, Frank Haines, Rachel Harrison, Ben Judd, Susan MacWilliam, Joanna Malinowska, Shana Moulton, Bede Murphy, Jeanine Oleson, Clifford Smith, Spirit Tours (Dave Hardy & Siebren Versteeg), Scott Treleaven.

La MaMa La Galleria
6 East 1st Street  New York City
June 3-27, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 3 from 6-9 PM


Performance by Jeanine Oleson at 8 PM:  I Ran Contraband Spirituality
Jeanine Oleson's combines her interest in communal activities such as singing and rituals with cultural politics and spiritual in this new performance work created specifically for To Believe.  Taking Joan Quigley, the controversial astrologer during the Reagan era as her impetus, Oleson translates the unfolding of what became an infamous altercation through the platform of musical theater and karaoke.  A duet performed by Allen Frame as Donald Regan, former Chief of Staffand and Susana Manzana as Joan Quigley, the Reagan’s astrologer.


Spirit Tours 2010
Dave Hardy and Siebren Versteeg's collaboration Spirit Tours investigates the notion of a journey through a variety of simulated experiences.  For To Believe, the duo have created a project likened to an "out-of-body experience" where participants are able to be in two locations at the same time.  The residual work for the show will document this project as a ghostly remnant.


SUNDAY, June 6 from 4-6 PM
Screening of works by Ben Judd, Shana Moulton & Scott Treleaven


The work of Shana Moulton exists in a New Age world teeming with bright colors, self-help therapeutic products and soul-soothing decor.  Her characters waver between skepticism and belief and exhaust a slew of psychic and physical improvement regimens that comment on contemporary mainstream’s endless need for self-improvement.


Scott Treleaven incorporates the visual language of the occult and the polytheistic as a means of capturing moments of discovery.


Ben Judd occupies the role of participant and observer in his exploration of specific groups and individuals who hold their own rules and belief systems.  He engages with clairvoyants and shaman and recreates pagan rituals as a means of translating a ritualistic activity based on belief into a moving image.  

SUNDAY, June 6 from 7-10 PM
After Party fund-raiser at Eastern Bloc, 505 E 6th Street, NYC 
$10 suggested donation.  Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS

Additional Performances & Screenings scheduled every Sunday in June. All events, with the exception of the Eastern Bloc party, are free and at La MaMa La Galleria.

Click here for full schedule and exhibition details

To Believe

To Believe
Curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak for Visual AIDS 

La MaMa La Galleria
6 East 1st Street, New York City

June 3-27, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 3 from 6 – 9 PM
Performance by Jeanine Oleson: I Ran Contraband Spirituality
and Spirit Tours 2010 (Dave Hardy & Siebren  Versteeg)
 
Sunday, June 6
4 - 6 PM:  Screening by Shana Moulton, Ben Judd, Scott Treleaven
7 – 10 PM:  Visual AIDS Fundraiser at Eastern Bloc, 505 E 6th Street btw Ave A & B, NYC
 
Sunday June 13 from 4 - 6 PM 
Screening of works by Susan MacWilliam
 
Sunday June 20 from 4 – 6 PM
Unarius Screening hosted by Bebe Murphy
 
Sunday June 27 from 4 – 6 PM
Performance by Ben Judd and Blanco & Noiry

When faced with impossible questions, the notion of mortality or dire situations, many people turn to unconventional means or practices for answers, respite or foresight. To Believe brings together a selection of artists and artworks that incorporate the actions and practices related to a range of metaphysical beliefs. Through repetition, observation and portrayal of these rituals, events and the characters who perform them, the artists embrace and sometimes question the conclusiveness of these practices and in doing so suspend their own disbeliefs. The artists in To Believe are a mixture of skeptics and believers, experts and novices, participants and observers, who through their work consider the actions taken to achieve self-fulfillment and enlightenment through the otherworldly. Participating artists include David Cannon Dashiell, Robert Flack, Frank Haines, Rachel Harrison, Ben Judd, Susan MacWilliam, Joanna Malinowska, Shana Moulton, Bede Murphy, Jeanine Oleson,  Clifford Smith,  Spirit Tours (Dave Hardy & Siebren Versteeg) and Scott Treleaven.

Joey Arias to perform at VAVA VOOM!

Joseph Keckler to perform at VAVA VOOM for Visual AIDS

Count down to VAVA VOOM!

It's almost here...The 5th Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards & Spring Benefit is this Monday May 24 from 7:30 – 10:30 PM at Avenue, 116 Tenth Avenue NYC.  Don't Miss Out!

Tickets are still available, including a limited supply of Artists Tickets for only $175 and Patron Tickets which include reserved seating and a raffle ticket.  Purchase tickets HERE or contact Visual AIDS at (212) 627-9855.

VAVA VOOM Raffle  $100 - Get your Raffle tickets HERE.
- Grand Prize:  3 VIP nights at Gansevoort Turks & Caicos (valued at $3,500)
- Oliver Peoples sunglasses, 3 men and 3 women frames,  (valued at $2,400)
- Equinox 6 month All Access Membership (valued at $1,590)
- HUGO BOSS $1,000 shopping spree

Join us for cocktails & hor d'oeuvres as we honor
Mary Ellen Carroll presented by David Joselit
John Kelly presented by Philip Yenawine

Plus an unforgettable NIGHT OF CABARET with
Joey Arias, Joseph Keckler and Christopher Tanner. 
Hosted by Nona Hendryx.  Music by DJ Bill Coleman.
 
Can't attend?  You can still purchase a raffle ticket for your chance to win.  You need not be present to win.  Or consider making a tax-deductible donation to Visual AIDS to help us continue with our important programs. 

Visual AIDS utilizes the art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy - because AIDS IS NOT OVER.  www.visualAIDS.org

VAVA VOOM - Coming Soon!!!

The 5th Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards & Spring Benefit is Monday May 24 from 7:30–10:30pm at Avenue 116 Tenth Ave NYC. 

Tickets still available.  Reserved seating is limited.  Purchase tickets HERE or contact Visual AIDS at (212) 627-9855.

$2,000 Table for Four (reserved seating + four raffle tickets)
$500 Patron (reserved seating + one raffle ticket)
$275 Individual 
$175 Artist (Sponsored by HUGO BOSS)
or make a tax-deductible donation

VAVA VOOM Raffle  $100 - Get your Raffle tickets HERE.
- Grand Prize:  3 VIP nights at Gansevoort Turks & Caicos (valued at $3,500)
- Oliver Peoples sunglasses, 3 men and 3 women frames,  (valued at $2,400)
- Equinox 6 month All Access Membership (valued at $1,590)
- HUGO BOSS $1,000 shopping spree


You need not be present to win. 

A NIGHT OF CABARET

Featuring Joey Arias, Joseph Keckler and Christopher Tanner. 
Hosted by Nona Hendryx.  Music by DJ Bill Coleman.
 
HONORING

John Kelly presented by Philip Yenawine
Mary Ellen Carroll presented by David Joselit

Avenue •  116 Tenth Avenue •  New York City

Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS.  Visual AIDS utilizes the art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy - because AIDS IS NOT OVER.

VAVA VOOM! A Night of Cabaret

VAVA VOOM
The 5th Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards & Spring Benefit

Monday May 24, 2010
7:30 – 10:30PM

A Night of Cabaret with
Joey Arias
Joseph Keckler
Christopher Tanner


Hosted by Nona Hendryx


Music by DJ Bill Coleman
 
Honoring
Mary Ellen Carroll presented by David Joselit
John Kelly presented by Philip Yenawine

TICKETS
$500 Patron Individual (reserved seating)
$275 Individual  ($250 Early Bird Tickets available thru May 10)
$175 Artist Ticket (Sponsored by HUGO BOSS)

Early Bird Tickets available through Monday May 10
Reserved Seating is Limited - Get your tickets today
RSVP by Monday May 17, 2010

Purchase tickets HERE or contact Visual AIDS: (212) 627-9855
 
RAFFLE
$100 ea.
  - Grand Prize:  3 VIP nights at Gansevoort Turks & Caicos (valued at $3,500)
  - Oliver Peoples sunglasses, 3 men and 3 women frames (valued at $2,400)
  - Equinox 6 month All Access Membership (valued at $1,590)
  - HUGO BOSS $1,000 shopping spree
 


          Avenue   116 Tenth Avenue   New York   New York

Visual AIDS utilizes the art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy - because AIDS IS NOT OVER.

VAVA VOOM! Honoring Mary Ellen Carroll & John Kelly

VAVA VOOM
The 5th Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards & Spring Benefit

Honoring
Mary Ellen Carroll presented by David Joselit
John Kelly presented by Philip Yenawine

Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City and Houston, Texas. Moving deftly among large-scale architectural interventions, experimental film, staged events, sculpture, photography, and book projects, her work interrogates the relationship between subjectivity, language, and power. The notion of representation and identification has always been at the core of Carroll’s oeuvre, and her dedication to a political and social critique that is consciously developed without a signature style.  In 2010 SteidlMACK published the monograph Mary Ellen Carroll: MEC, with text by Jonathan Flatley and Hamza Walker.  Mary Ellen Carroll is also the executor of The Estate of Robert Blanchon.  www.mecarroll.com

John Kelly is a performance and visual artist whose creative work runs the gamut from mixed media dance theatre works, to vocal concerts, to exhibitions.  His work explores the character of creative genius as it occurs in the gradations between the ephemeral and the tangible.  Specific works have pondered Egon Schiele, Caravaggio, Antonin Artaud, Joni Mitchell, Barbette, Jean Cocteau; autobiography, the Berlin Wall, the Troubadours, the AIDS epidemic, and Expressionistic Film. These works have been performed at The Kitchen, PS 1, the Warhol Museum, the Whitney Biennial, The Tate Modern, and BAM. Paintings, drawings, photographs and video works have been exhibited in galleries and museums including Alexander Gray Associates; MIT List Visual Art Center; ICA Philadelphia; MACRO, Italy; Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Italy; New Museum, NY. He was a recent Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Art at the American Academy in Rome, and is currently a 2010 Armory Artist in Residence at New York’s Park Avenue Armory.  www.johnkellyperformance.org

Plus A Night of Cabaret with
Joey Arias
Joseph Keckler
Christopher Tanner
Hosted by: Nona Hendryx
DJ Bill Coleman
 

Monday May 24, 2010
7:30 – 10:30PM
 
Avenue
116 Tenth Avenue NYC

TICKETS (Reserved seating is limited and selling fast.  Get your tickets today!)
$2,000 Table for four (reserved seating)
$500 Patron Individual (reserved seating)
$275 Individual  ($250 if purchased before May 10)
$175 Artist Ticket (Sponsored by HUGO BOSS)
 
RAFFLE
- Grand Prize:  3 VIP nights at Gansevoort Turks & Caicos (valued at $3,500)
- Oliver Peoples sunglasses, 3 men and 3 women frames,  (valued at $2,400)
- Equinox 6 month All Access Membership (valued at $1,590)
- HUGO BOSS $1,000 shopping spree
 
Purchase tickets HERE or contact Visual AIDS: (212) 627-9855

Thank you to all the VAVA VOOM sponsors and performers: Avenue, Hangar One, X-ING Design, IT Management Global, Gansevoort Turks + Caicos, Equinox, HUGO BOSS, Oliver Peoples, Joey Arias, Joseph Keckler, Christopher Tanner, Nona Hendryx and Bill Coleman.