We're partnering with Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) and Visual AIDS for a Day With(out) Art 2024 presentation of Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. 

Since its inception in America in 1989, Day Without Art has marked the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the artistic community and documented efforts in fighting AIDS. Artists and art institutions shut their doors, dim the lights, and shroud their works, replacing them with posters and facts about AIDS. Others screen films and documentaries for audiences online and in theaters.

Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA). Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.

The Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) is dedicated to preventing new cases of HIV/AIDS and promoting self-sufficiency in people living with HIV. WNCAP provides HIV-related client support, prevention, education and advocacy activities guided by the belief that all people are entitled to equal access to health care and disease prevention. Learn more at wncap.org

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. Learn more at visualaids.org