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Talents - Americas
• Argentina
Fundamind/ IEC - Mitre Gerardo/ Maria Izabel Mujica - photos, t-shirts
This project by young artists promotes AIDS prevention. The art conveys the message that we need to stop the destruction of humanity. The exhibit is on display in the Exhibition Centre Hall 4/G. On 13 and 14 July 4pm Fundamind will be at Hualumpong Train Station 4pm and will be at the Global Village 14 July noon-1pm.
• Brazil
Adriana Bertini – condom dresses fashion show
Adriana’s beautiful condom dresses are internationally famous. Adriana believes that her art can provoke reflections on sexual health matters by raising questions on the present social context in a light and entertaining fashion, transforming raw material into a sensual object of pleasure and love. Adriana’s condom dresses are displayed in the Exhibition Centre Hall 1/A.
• Canada
Michael Kleiman - performance
Michael’s performance of music, light and aerial choreography is performed 10 meters above the heads of the audience. Using two pieces of red fabric, the shape of the universal symbol for AIDS awareness, the red ribbon, is formed. Michael will perform 12 July noon-1pm in Hall 6, 13 July noon-1pm in Hall 6, 14 July 2-4pm in Room 12 Forum on Artists Living with HIV and 15 July noon-1pm in Hall 6.
Roland Lee - music
Roland is a Canadian Singer-songwriter of diverse background…equally adept in performing the classical repertoire or touring as a session player in cover bands. Roland will play 10 July 6pm at Goethe Institut ‘Com.Passion’ Opening.
Living Monument Mural Project – mural
This group of indigenous sex workers from Montreal creates a three-storey mural to honour sex workers who have been killed. This extraordinary project generates conversation and a sense of community participation. The live outdoor beading installation features 20 10-foot-long beaded strands, representing the uncensored strands of our lives. Interwoven are bottle caps, condom wrappers, keychains of people we have lost, sexy pictures, ribbons, traditional beading and whatever else people bring. Visitors are invited to walk through. The Living Monument will be installed at Soi Cowboy, Sukhumvit Rd.
Vancouver Native Health Society (Reinaldo Victor Peralta Vanegas) – film and poetry
Reinaldo brings the film “Living Positive” from the Vancouver Native Health Society, a non-profit organisation working for PHA in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. The film follows the lives of four PHAs living in the streets of Vancouver. Reinaldo will also share his personal experience as a positive gay man through poetry at the Poets Meet, 15 July 4-5:30pm Room 12.
Marlo Sasha Cottrell - painting
Marlo’s paintings reveal her personal experiences of living with HIV/AIDS, facing discrimination, children and HIV, and dealing with uncertainty. ‘I want to share with others through my art work what it has been like for me in this last eight years to live with the virus. I have had to face discrimination…mortality…and I have to re-evaluate myself as a woman living with this disease.’ Marlo’s exhibit is displayed in the Exhibition Centre Hall 3/E. Marlo will join the Artists Living with HIV Forum on 14 July 2-4pm in Room 12.
Darren Shawn Greer - poetry
A gay AIDS activist and well-known indigenous-Canadian author, Darren started writing a novel the day he was diagnosed HIV positive. He will read some of his poems, stories and articles which deal both incidentally and directly with HIV. Darren will read at the beginning of the Plenary session on 13 July 8am and will also join the Artists Living with HIV Forum on 14 July 2-4pm in Room 12.
CAAN (Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network) (Dina Epale) – posters
This series of five posters developed by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network has been carefully crafted and depicts the three main Aboriginal groups in Canada (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) in a joint effort to raise awareness of issues around HIV/AIDS in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Fact sheets and wallet size cards are also shared at the conference. The posters are displayed in the Exhibition Centre Hall 3/E.
• Jamaica
Ashe – performance, music
A lively and entertaining troupe of 10 people, Ashe will bring Caribbean music and dance – wild at any time! Ashe will be 12 July noon-1pm in the Global Village, 13 July 11:30-1pm at the NGO Booth, 14 July noon-1pm along the hallway and 8-10pm at Lumpini Hall and 15 July 7pm at the Goethe Institut ‘HIV Edu-tainment’ night.
• Mexico
Edgar Avila – performance
Edgar promotes the use of art in HIV/AIDS prevention and education. He advocates for correct use of condoms and against discrimination of PHA and homosexuals. Edgar will perform at spontaneous moments and locations.
Ken Morrison – photo/poster exhibition and Latino café
Ken plans to install a Latino bar with music, performers, coffee, and Corona/tequila in the Global Village. His black and white photos and posters reveal the stigma and discrimination of PHAs in Mexico. Images of contemporary prevention and care work, and those of key activists and AIDS workers are shown along with pre-Hispanic images of sexuality. Ken’s bar is hopefully in the Global Village!
Franka Polari - performance, installation, poetry
Franka Polari/Omar Feliciano is a performance artist working in the fields of queer language, identity, public space, sexuality and AIDS. He has been doing installations and performance in sexual venue at Mexico City’s largest university. From this work came the digital photo series ‘Beliefs/creencias’ and a weekly installation ‘Tree of Life/árbol de la vida’ made with condoms to be taken by the sexual venue users. Omar created a persona named ‘Franka Polari’ to be the author of the performances as he is not interested merely in the creation of a work, but in the making of both fictions: the artist and artwork. Franka/Omar will perform 13 July noon-1pm and 14 July noon-1pm in Hall 6 and along the hallway, 15 July noon-1pm in the Global Village.
Óscar Sánchez-Gómez - photo
Óscar’s documentary photographs depict his feelings and experiences of living with HIV/AIDS, including the relationship with medicines and dealing with body changes. The aim of this work is to create awareness of PHAs and their daily struggle and to fight social discrimination and stigma. Óscar and Franka Polari will present the performance ‘Translated Bodies’ in which photos are translated to body art at the Queen’s Gallery on 13 July 7pm. Oscar’s work can also be seen July 9, 3-9pm at the Hualumpong Train Station (Rama 4 Rd) and 14 July 2-4pm Room 12 Forum on Artists Living with HIV.
• Peru
Fernando Olivos – art objects/ intervention in public space
Fernando’s project expresses his personal contact with the human experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It directly responds to the challenge with messages and uses deeply entrenched cultural symbols. Fernando also calls for results that go beyond the context of the epidemic and suggest the utopia of a better world, an ideal world, a paradise. Fernando’s installation is in the Exhibition Centre in the NGO Exhibition Wall.
• USA
Daniel Duane Enger - film
Daniel co-ordinated the film/video programs at the XII international conference AIDS and STD in Africa and volunteered his services to help out with the film/video component of the Art & Cultural program.
Franck DeRose – condom art
The Condom Project (TCP) is a group of AIDS educators and activists committed to empowering the public with current and accurate information about condoms and their role in reducing the risk of contracting and transmitting HIV. The use of condoms as a lifesaving tool is promoted through the ornamentation and distribution of “Condom Art Pins”, which open dialogue with communities about condom use and crossing religious and social barriers. TCP table will be at the Exhibition Centre Hall 1/B.
Ingrid Kloet, Kenya Nakuru ‘Little Lambs’ ‘Life Home Project’ ENP+/GNP+ – painting, photo and posters
Ingrid’s strong positive attitude as a PHA is revealed in her work with orphans in Kenya with Stanley Tuvako (‘The Little Lambs’ in Nakuru) and the founder of the Hands panels Jose Luis Gay Cano from the Life Home Project. The Hands panels, paintings and posters are made by positive women and orphans from all over the world. This exhibition is displayed in the Exhibition Centre Hall 2/C.
Myk Henry – installation, performance
Myk’s extraordinary body of work is about briefly disrupting the routine of daily life and through this process revealing popular cultural illusions. For the conference, Myk is planning to build a flying condom distributing machine and will perform at the 9 July 3-9pm Fashion Mart at Hualumpong Station, in the Global Village 13 July noon-1pm.
Pandemic Facing AIDS - photo and documentary film
Pandemic Facing AIDS by Rory Kennedy/Moxie Firecracker Films and Nan Richardson/Umbrage Editions is a multi-faceted outreach campaign aimed at raising awareness of the global AIDS crisis through a variety of cultural and education projects. These include an HBO documentary film; three travelling photography exhibitions (museum version features 125 works imaging AIDS over 20 years by 100 artists representing 60 countries); a book featuring essays by Kofi Annan, Nadine Gordimer, and Jeffrey Sachs; an educational curriculum distributed free to 1.2 million school children in North and South America and the Caribbean; a web-site in five languages (www.pandemicfacing aids.org) and a music CD. The campaign is on display at the Exhibition Centre in Hall 4/F.
Skowmon Hastanan – internet art and accessories
Skowman is not attending the conference in person but is with us through her internet art and her project for creating pin buttons. Skownman’s make-your-own badge table is in front of Room 12 in the Convention Centre.
Samuel R. Friedman – poetry
Samuel joins the conference in the Scientific Program and will also read some of his poems at the beginning of the Plenary session on 14 July 8am. His poetry mixes his personal experience as an AIDS researcher, as a public health practitioner frustrated with the difficulties of getting needed programs actually to happen, and as a human being horrified by the AIDS crisis and deeply impressed by the human strengths of those who deal with it every day.
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Condom dresses by Adriana Bertini, Brazil
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Music by Roland Lee, Canadian
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by Oscar Sanchez Gomez from Mexico
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One of children's paintings called "wolf", sent in by Ingrid Kloet, USA
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Pandemic Facing AIDS, USA
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