Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/01/2019
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Andy Warhol Museum
Categories
Mark this year’s World AIDS Day with a program featuring videos covering broad subject matter from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its subsequent acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) compromise the body’s natural immune syndrome making it vulnerable to a wide range of diseases. HIV/AIDS is spread through the exchange of bodily fluids such as blood transfusions, the sharing of intravenous needles and sexual activity. The first major groups of people to hit hard by the pandemic were gay and bisexual men. World AIDS Day began in 1988 to bring awareness to the pandemic.
Artist Jordan Eagles will also be creating a light installation within the museum galleries. Working with blood donated from members of the LGBTQ+ community, the artist will project images directly onto Andy Warhol’s paintings in order to address the stigma of HIV, the federal government’s discriminatory ban on blood donation by gay men, and the value of human life.
For more information, call (412) 237-8300.
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