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2016 Day With(out) Art: VisualAIDS Presents Compulsive Practice

For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents Compulsive Practice, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS.

This hour-long video program will be on view in MAD’s 6th floor Project Space as a looping presentation throughout the day.

From video diaries to civil disobedience, holiday specials and backstage antics, Betamax to YouTube, Compulsive Practice displays a diversity of artistic approaches, experiences, and expectations. The compulsive video practices of these artists serve many purposes—cure, treatment, outlet, lament, documentation, communication—and have many tones—obsessive, driven, poetic, neurotic, celebratory. Compulsive Practice will demonstrate the place of technology, self-expression, critique, and community in the many decades and the many experiences of artists and activists living with AIDS.

Compulsive Practice is curated by Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz, and Hugh Ryan. Participating video makers and artists include  James Wentzy, Nelson Sullivan (1948-1989), Ray Navarro (1964-1990), Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot, Juanita Mohammed, Luna Luis Ortiz, Mark S. King, Justin B. Terry-Smith, and the Southern AIDS Living Quilt.











When: Thu., Dec. 1, 2016 at 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
212-299-7777
Price: Free with museum admission
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For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents Compulsive Practice, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS.

This hour-long video program will be on view in MAD’s 6th floor Project Space as a looping presentation throughout the day.

From video diaries to civil disobedience, holiday specials and backstage antics, Betamax to YouTube, Compulsive Practice displays a diversity of artistic approaches, experiences, and expectations. The compulsive video practices of these artists serve many purposes—cure, treatment, outlet, lament, documentation, communication—and have many tones—obsessive, driven, poetic, neurotic, celebratory. Compulsive Practice will demonstrate the place of technology, self-expression, critique, and community in the many decades and the many experiences of artists and activists living with AIDS.

Compulsive Practice is curated by Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz, and Hugh Ryan. Participating video makers and artists include  James Wentzy, Nelson Sullivan (1948-1989), Ray Navarro (1964-1990), Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot, Juanita Mohammed, Luna Luis Ortiz, Mark S. King, Justin B. Terry-Smith, and the Southern AIDS Living Quilt.

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