World AIDS Day

Join us and our partner HIV+ Aging Research Project (HARP-PS) for a discussion between those impacted firsthand by HIV. Marc Franke, "The Düsseldorf Patient," and Paul Edmonds, "The City of Hope Patient", will speak on their experiences as people who have been cured of HIV. Paula Cannon PhD, Sumit Chanda PhD., and Angelo Cardoso MD Ph.D. will discuss the latest HIV Cure research.

Palm Springs Art Museum and HIV+ Aging Research Project join with Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art 2024 to present Red Reminds Me… This will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).

Following the films we will be hosting a panel featuring local AIDS organizations and scholars who work around HIV/AIDS, public health, and social justice. The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.

MORE INFO ON THE 2024 THEME Red Reminds Me…:

Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parodies, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.

The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free. Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deeper, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.

*Jennings recites this poem in the video Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, created by Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes for Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging.