Digital Arts Resource Centre and Qu’Art are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.
Join us on Wednesday, November 29th, for a community talk by Visual AIDS Research Fellow Adam Ash Barbu. This critical introduction to Everyone I Know Is Sick weaves connections between histories of AIDS cultural production and the work included in this year’s program and will be followed by the Day With(out) Art 2023 Screening.
The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA).
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.
Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick is on display in the DARC Microcinema from 10 am to 6 pm on November 30th & December 1st. The community screening and lecture presentation is AT 7 pm on November 29th.
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.
