Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me

Gian Cruz (he/him) is a Filipino artist, researcher, and arts worker. His artistic practice is rooted in photography, art theory, and criticism and intersects with cinema, performance, and HIV/AIDS activism within Southeast Asian frameworks. He has worked with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Picto Foundation, Paris; Palais Galliera, Paris (Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris); La Biennale di Venezia; the Japan Foundation; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Bienal de Curitiba; Blackwood Gallery, Toronto; Pride Photo Award, Amsterdam; and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

Juan De La Mar (they/them) is a lawyer, HIV+ activist, and artist from Colombia. Their documentary debut, De Gris a POSITHIVO, has won sixteen awards and screened at fifty-two festivals worldwide. De La Mar has performed at the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO) and were selected as the 2024 HIV Culture Residency at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito. As an activist, they have worked with the Latin American HIV-Positive Youth Network (J+LAC), and they currently coordinate Bogota’s Fast-Track Cities strategy to accelerate the response to HIV/AIDS.

Milko Delgado (he/him) is a transdisciplinary artist whose cultural practice integrates various forms of research and knowledge production, primarily within the realms of visual arts, video, performance, pedagogy, and cultural management. Delgado’s work explores the intersections between boys and nature, opening dialogue about identity, coloniality, extraction, health, and land. Delgado graduated from the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba. His work has been exhibited at el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, TEOR/ética (Costa Rica)/Fresh Milk (Barbados), New York Latin American Art Triennial, and the Center for Visual Art (Denver).

Imani Harrington (she/her) is a writer, author, and conceptual artist who has documented the conditions of women since the age of twenty-five. She was an editor for the anthology Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS: A Collection of Plays (2002), and her play Love & Danger (1995) was among the first to address women and HIV. Her other titles include The Communal Plays and Other Narratives, On Writing I, ISSHOWAT, and House of Leaven.

David Oscar Harvey (he/him) is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst-in-training living in Philadelphia. His essay film on HIV criminalization, RED RED RED, has screened at film festivals and art spaces internationally. His writing on identity, HIV/AIDS, and film and media have appeared in numerous publications. He is an active member in the artist and activist collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?.

Mariana Iacono (she/her) is a social worker, media activist, and educator who has worked with networks of people living with HIV in Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean for more than ten years. She is a cofounder of several HIV organizations in Argentina including Argentine Network of Positive Youth and Adolescents (RAJAP), RAP+30, and Latin American HIV-Positive Youth Network (J+LAC). She currently manages promotion and communication strategy for J+LAC, focusing on feminist issues and building a coalition of young people toward Cairo+20. Iacono’s writing has been published in Volcánicas, Midia Ninja, Vice, Anfibia, Tiempo Argentino, Hoja Blanca, and Revista Nómada.

nixie (she/they) is a transfemme HIV+ multimedia artist, writer, and parent based in Belgium. Her artwork has addressed HIV and genealogy, consent in gay spaces, the joy of parenthood, mourning, and the celebration of loss. She works mainly through mediums of text, video, performance, textiles, and painting.

Vasilios Papapitsios (they/he) is an LA-based writer, filmmaker, and artist originally from the South whose work transmutes stigma and trauma with a flair for the fantastical. Papapitsios has contributed to projects for MasterClass, AwesomenessTV, and Emmy-nominated intersectional media platform OTV | Open Television. They were recognized as a Notable Writer in the 2021 OUTFEST screenwriting lab and as an artivist storyteller in residence with UCLA’s Through Positive Eyes. They create very strange, frank, and whimsical worlds for us to wander off in, blending genres and blurring boundaries within advocacy, education, and entertainment.