Visual AIDS
{{Short description|New York-based art organization}}
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Visual AIDS is an art organization based in New York City. Started in 1988, it is one of the first initiatives to record the impact of the AIDS pandemic on the artistic community. Art institutions and AIDS-related communities co-developed projects like Day Without Art, Night Without Light, The Banner Project, Postcards from the Edge,{{Cite web|last=Cascone|first=Sarah|date=2015-10-07|title='Postcards from the Edge' Returns in January|url=https://news.artnet.com/market/visual-aids-postcards-from-the-edge-2015-338062|access-date=2021-11-19|website=Artnet News|language=en-US}} and The Ribbon Project.{{Cite magazine|date=2013-06-29|title=Tune In, Black Out|magazine=Wired|url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/12/32796|access-date=2020-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629023709/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/12/32796|archive-date=2013-06-29|last1=Olson|first1=Marisa S.}}{{Cite web|date=2013-03-09|title=Day With(out) Art: The Banner Project 2000 and CineVirus: Make a Scene {{!}} Creative Time|url=http://creativetime.org/projects/day-without-art-the-banner-project-2000-and-cinevirus-make-a-scene/|access-date=2020-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309222740/http://creativetime.org/projects/day-without-art-the-banner-project-2000-and-cinevirus-make-a-scene/|archive-date=2013-03-09}}{{Cite web|title=Visual AIDS {{!}} About Us|url=https://visualaids.org/about-us|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Visual AIDS|language=en-US}} Artists include...
In 1988, New York curators and critics William Olander, Robert Atkins, Thomas Sokolowski, and Gary Garrels (then Director of Programs at Dia Art Foundation),{{cite web |url=https://visualaids.org/blog/vava-voom-preview-honoring-the-founders |title=VAVA Voom Preview: Honoring the Founders |publisher=Visual AIDS |date=April 15, 2013 |access-date=May 5, 2021 }} created Visual AIDS, a loosely-organized coalition of arts professionals working to encourage discussion of the pressing social issues of the AIDS epidemic, with artist Patrick O'Connell as their founding executive director. Every year Visual AIDS presents the "Bill Olander Award" to art workers or artists living with HIV.
Activities
VisualAIDS is helping produce artist projects, organizing exhibitions, public programs and publishing publications. It also runs Artist+ Registry & Archive Associate. In NYC Visual AIDS offers additional services like artwork photography, tours, and Art Therapy Workshops.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-31|title=Visual AIDS|url=https://www.thewellproject.org/partners/visual-aids|access-date=2020-12-01|website=The Well Project|language=en}} As of 2013 VisualAIDS is also annually hosting an artist or a curator in residence.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=January 2009|title=Artist-in-Residence|url=http://www.residencyunlimited.org/partnerships/visual-aids/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-01|website=ResidencyUnlimited}} In 2020 Visual AIDS launched online platform, “Not Over” featuring rare videos and performances.{{Cite web|last=Liscia|first=Valentina Di|date=2020-05-11|title=Visual AIDS Launches New Online Platform, "Not Over"|url=https://hyperallergic.com/563075/visual-aids-launches-new-online-platform-not-over/|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}} They also commissioned short videos from different parts of the world that address different experiences of HIV/AIDS for the online program TRANSMISSIONS that premiered on the Day With(out) Art 2020.{{Cite web|title=TRANSMISSIONS / Day With(out) Art 2020|url=https://www.artforum.com/video/visual-aids-84570|access-date=2020-12-01|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}}
The VisualAIDS Artist Files collection contains the artworks and papers of artists with AIDS and HIV from 1994.{{Cite web |title=Visual AIDS Archive and Artist Registry |url=https://visualaids.org/projects/the-artist-registry-and-archive-project |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=Visual AIDS |language=en-US}} The organization also offers finding aids to assist with research.{{Cite web |title=ArchivesSpace: Visual AIDS Artists File |url=https://visualaids.org/uploads/projects/downloads/VisualAIDSArtistFilesFindingAid92324.pdf}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book |last1=Cifor |first1=Marika | title=Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS |date=2022 |language=en |isbn=978-1-5179-0936-9 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.VisualAIDS.org/ VisualAIDS's official website]
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Category:Arts organizations established in 1988
Category:Non-profit organizations based in New York City