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ArtHIVism

Adriana Bertini on December 8, 2020

The artHivism space is an idea and wish to create the first digital connection in the world between artists and NGOs that use the arts in their plurality to impact a global response to the AIDS epidemic.

Our goal is to register artistic actions in a collaborative space, promoting the
integration between artists, projects and the art market to exchange and share experiences about artHivism aiming at sustainability.

The main objective is to collect data to create the first Worldwide Network of ArtHivism to discuss the impact of the arts on the global response.

New Site

luvhurts_vbrid7 on September 2, 2020

www.luvtilithurts.co

The working group that comprises Luv ’til it Hurts–Brad Walrond (NYC), Paula Nishijima (Amsterdam) & Todd Lanier Lester (São Paulo )–is making a 15-20 artist group show entitled «EXQUISITE CORPSE» on HIV and related stigmas, one that evolves as it travels to each new location. The video letter is something we put together describing our collective working style, as is our artist statement. Additionally, artist/member Paula Nishijima has designed and curated the next version of our website to reflect the present state of our process. This **new site** goes live by the end of September 2020. En bref:

Every Where Alien

luvhurts_vbrid7 on April 27, 2020

Every Where Alien is an art, culture, and content producing pedagogy and brand that focuses on the intersection between human identity formation and virtual reality (past, present, and future). It aims to create community and foster creative engagement around these themes through collaborative art, performance, and discourse.

Every Where Alien is made by poet, writer, activist, and conceptual artist Brad Walrond. Brad has a column on the LUV site called Launch Pad. Also, see 1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War, a signature, epic work by Brad Walrond that is central to his forthcoming book of poetry and pedagogy, Every Where Alien.

ACT III

luvhurts_vbrid7 on April 24, 2020

Act III includes the denouement and proposes a LUV afterlife illustrated by Brazilian artist PogoLand. For a look at some of his previous work, check out Cuiabá, a zine made during Cidade Queer.

As the R&D phase of LUV has freshly ended, the project seems to have yielded a traveling group exhibit; a growing work group; and the blueprint for a philanthropic device.

Please stay tuned!

ACT II

luvhurts_vbrid7 on March 31, 2020

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Love Positive Women (February 1-14, 2020), a project by artist, Jessica Whitbread is the focus of LUV’s Act II. Similar to last year, 14 days of women-authored (and focused) content in on our site in partnership with Love Positive Women. The cloth heart project started in Brasil on World AIDS Day 2019 during the 3rd annual São Paulo AIDS Walk. Designer, George Ferraz created 100 cloth hearts made of two different styles of African fabric each (see here for more info). These were distributed to anyone who wanted one during the AIDS Walk. George sent the design to Oma Elzubair in Khartoum (Sudan) and she will offer a similar gesture by distributing 100 cloth hearts to women–embroidered with ‘love positive women’ in Arabic–in Khartoum during Love Positive Women 2020. Oma gathered a team of women–Sherif Hussien, Randa Mursal, and Fatima Alameen–to support a series of actions locally in Khartoum, which begin during Love Positive Women 2020.

ACT I

luvhurts_vbrid7 on March 9, 2020

The LUV game is a part of Luv ’til it Hurts. The idea is based on a game played around the world called Exquisite Corpse. It’s a non-competitive game that can be played with only two people as well as a large group. The game is super easy. A new design or ‘visual work’ is made each time people play the game together. The LUV game simply offers an excuse to talk about HIV and stigma in a range of settings from museum to public space or even on the street. The game idea came up when I asked a young design time in Port Said (Egypt) to help me communicate the values and goals of Luv ’til it Hurts. The LUV game launched officially in Bogotá and Grenoble in late October; will have another run during São Paulo’s December 1st AIDS Walk, and will be available online the same day, World AIDS Day 2019.

Nhimbe Trust

luvhurts_vbrid7 on November 25, 2019

Nhimbe Trust is a Zimbabwean non-profit non-governmental organisation that works at the intersection of culture and development to foster local socio-economic development. Nhimbe’s development programmes in the arts and culture sector have consistently contributed to structural action in youth and women empowerment initiatives. Nhimbe is committed to pioneering work that defends freedom of artistic expression in Zimbabwe. Through legislative and grassroots action, Nhimbe advocates for national policies that recognise, enhance and foster the contribution the arts make to national development.

Think Twice Collective

luvhurts_vbrid7 on October 22, 2019

Think Twice is a collective of researchers, professionals and thinkers focusing on critical of contemporary issues in the still colonial contemporary academia and beyond. The collective works both as a news outlet and as publishing platform for critical essays. To encourage the proposition of fresh ideas, Think Twice has a yearly focus on specific topics, including their own provocations and a yearly external call for papers.

See: Think Twice Collective

Play Me

luvhurts_vbrid7 on September 27, 2019

*This just in! LUV Game ‘box set’ design by Adham Bakry!!

The LUV Game strategy is explained on its broadsheet, and its logic rehearsed in a sappy homage, Thank you to Lois Weaver (ample version). This page is for sharing different language versions of its simple set of instructions as well as the game pieces (tiles) in both black & white and color (at bottom), and also a book of partner tiles. In fact, the Partner Tile book serves as a second set of instructions (for organizational use), which came up in the game-making process. And, please please please remember codeword ‘Abbie Hoffman’ when stealing this game …

MetaMorphineMachineFuriosaXXX

Ego Sum Frank on September 20, 2019

MMMF Triple X is a new concept in conceptualization of meaningless sciences of Art. We can create and develop concepts about everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Don’t be ashamed if your art is shit. Art can be an expensive Shit. All our concepts are approved by curators. Our concepts are generated automatically from curatorial essays of fancy exhibitions in Europe and North America. We can make them gag on their own words. Algorithm made.