Being & Belonging

Blum & Poe is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today:

Camila Arce

Memoria Vertical, 2022

Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes

Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, 2022

Jaewon Kim

Nuance, 2022

Clifford Prince King

Kiss of Life, 2022

Santiago Lemus & Camilo Acosta Huntertexas

Los Amarillos, 2022

Mikiki

Red Flags, a love letter, 2022

Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry

Lxs dxs bichudas, 2022

Total run time: 55:33 minutes

A time of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. AIDS is not over!

In 1989 Visual AIDS presented the first Day Without Art—organizing museums and art institutions nationwide to cover up their artwork, darken their galleries, and even close for the day—to symbolically represent the chilling possibility of a future without art or artists. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative annual project in which organizations worldwide present exhibitions, screenings and public programs to highlight work by HIV+ artists andartwork addressing current issues around the ongoing AIDS pandemic.

Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS, and preserving the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.