Since 1989, Day Without Art has taken place annually on Friday 1 Dec, World AIDS Day. Founded in New York by Visual AIDS, Day Without Art has led the art world’s response to HIV and AIDS for almost 30 years. Events, shows and activist zaps seek to creatively divert attention towards HIV and AIDS, recalling the enormous losses to the creative world from AIDS while celebrating the work of artists living with HIV. In 1998, the event was rechristened Day With(out) Art, and over time the event has spread to cities across the globe, with an estimated 8000 organisations now taking part. This year, Superbia – the arts and culture programme from Manchester Pride – will co-ordinate Manchester’s first ever Day With(out) Art, in association with Visual AIDS New York. HOME, Bury Art Museum and Manchester Central Library will all include curatorial interventions in their venues. Disco night Drunk At Vogue will honour artists and musicians lost to AIDS at their final ever party, while independent queer art duo The Penthouse at Paradise Works present a screening of two collections of brand new international film work, curated by Balaclava.Q and by Visual AIDS themselves, including work from Mykki Blanco and Reina Gossett. Follow the hashtag #DayWithoutArtMcr and see full list of events below.
Fri 1 Dec, various venues, www.superbia.org.uk
- Words:
- Greg Thorpe
- Published on:
- Sat 4 Nov 2017
