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ArtHIVism

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

*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

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

HIV Stories

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

What about Elton?

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I sometimes jokingly say that I started Luv ’til it Hurts for Elton John. Well, it’s true. I was going through a particularly hard time last year, feeling sorry for myself due to a series of ‘roadblocks’– personally, professionally, creatively … existentially. I had the chance to make a new work (as one had just finished) and happened to read Activism Changed Elton John. Then Elton John Changed the World (The Advocate) and Elton John and Darren Walker on Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind (NYT). Both articles discuss the turning point(s) that had Sir Elton John devote his enormous prestige and energy to making and sustaining the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Given that this all happened at once—reading these articles and starting Luv ’til it Hurts–and given that LUV is an idea with a ‘business plan’ for engaging artists around HIV ever since it first tickled my imagination, proceeds and systems resulting from the overall project, with its two-year focus in three acts, are dedicated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Campaigns

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Game, etc.

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

GAME

The LUV game came from a series of encounters, talking to people living with HIV around the world about stigma. Conversations are always easy to start, but everyone seemed to agree that we need to keep talking. The LUV game is played like Exquisite Corpse; it’s easy to add another player; and helps get people talking in a variety of settings.

For Act I, ’the game’ is the centerpiece (or by-product) in a set of requisite priorities

Luciérnagas

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Luciérnagas is a participatory six-month arts lab, set up by artist Daniel Santiago, focused on HIV Stigma and Venezuelan migration. He expects a group of 15 people who will participate in talks and workshops every two weeks for an entire semester. He will propose to them to collaborate on a final live performance, based on how fireflies produce lights in the darkness for flirting and communicate with others. The preparation for this performance (body, tech and concept) will be part of the second half of the lab. The contents will be offered by different artists and organizations invited by the artist. This project is made under his one-year art residency at FLORA, Bogotá.

ANKH Association

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The ANKH (Arab Network for Knowledge on Human rights) association helps and supports the rights of minority groups, specifically LGBTQI and people living with HIV, in the Euromediterranean region.

The Know More Campaign is an initiative of the association**.** It is a health campaign to improve awareness about sexually transmitted diseases by providing diverse information in the Arabic language from reliable sources, without stigmatizing individuals on the basis of gender, religion, ethnic background, color, or sexual orientation. HIV is one of the main themes of the campaign.

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

[newsletter]

Field Notes

Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Frequently Asked Questions

Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Questions. So many questions. The LUV project is designed to provoke questions. One question we luv to answer is ‘how to get involved?’

How can I participate?

LUV is making a business plan for unearthing HIV-related stigmas. The plan takes two years to birth. LUV needs help with this and it usually requires multiple discussions. Please contact us.
LUV invites folks working on HIV to say (or show) what’s on their minds and/or how they do their work locally. For this we invite you to publish field notes or other features on the LUV site. Again, please contact us.

E&H LAB

Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

E&H LAB is the host agency of the CHAOS project. CHAOS is an awareness campaign created by Deza Nguembock, to unveil the taboo that exists over the complex issue of mental health. To break with social isolation, create a space of fulfillment and liberties; and facilitate the professional inclusion of the people concerned. E&H LAB’s mission is to contribute in building a more inclusive society, of individual and collective well-being. The CHAOS campaign uses artistic installations, videos, and other mediums to tackle the subject of mental health.

Acts I / II / III