HIVideo is A Global Exhibition of Video Art for World Aids Day. HIVideo
is the moving image strand of Balaclava.Q- an international Queer Art Project
and collective, better known as TACTIC 2. HIVideo seeks to promote contemporary
dialogue(s) on World Aids Day via video art from both a local and global
perspective. HIVideo complements current discourse and the de- stigmatization /
-criminalization movement by creating dialogue about HIV/AIDS via art – and
the attendant aesthetics and politics.
In 2016 HIVideo was
screened at Manchester’s LGBT Foundation and worldwide across Toronto (Canada),
Paris (France), South Africa, Puerto Rico, New Mexico and Oakland (California,
US) in galleries, safe spaces and sexual health centres. In 2017 The Penthouse present HIVideo at
their homeParadise Works on the
Manchester > Salford border. HIVideo brings together international artists
and venues across 5 continents to showcase art films which look at HIV/AIDS
with the intention of a more direct action approach with a specific theme for artists.
Films will be screened on World AIDS Day in Rome, (Italy), Manchester (UK),
London (UK), Berlin (Germany), New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Colombia and various
other locations across the UK, USA and Europe.
In 2017 Balaclava.Q is working in partnership with RAMP: Recycled
Medicine Campaign, LGBT Consortium UK and the global movement Prevention Access
Campaign.
The artist films create awareness and promote discourse
specifically about the Prevention Access Campaign, a global movement which
seeks to educate communities on current findings and statistics which state
unequivocally that Undetectable = Untransmissable or U=U as it has been branded
by www.preventionaccess.org. At the very core of this year’s screening is a
message about intimacy without fear of transmission.
This screening is programmed back to back with Visual Aids- a program of newly commissioned videos by Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Brontez Purnell titled ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS is the 28th annual iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. This event is part of
Manchester’s first Day With(out) Art programme from Superbia.
This year’s Greater Manchester serving of HIVideo 2017 is presented
by The Penthouse .
The Penthouse is an artist led Dyke|Queer
contemporary art project and space based in Manchester founded and ran by
artists Rosanne Robertson and Debbie Sharp. Curatorial and research projects
are focused on Queer art, radical practices, Queer feminism, experimental and
raw art- we consider the power at the margins.
The Penthouse is currently based at Paradise
Works in a luxurious corner suite- a
fitting home on the border of Salford and Manchester. Paradise Works is a new
artist run initiative providing studios & project space to a community of
proactive, intergenerational, contemporary artists established 2017.
HIVideo is produced by Balaclava.Q : An international Queer Art Project and collective. Connecting,
promoting and Creating Platforms for Queer artists.
Founded in June 2016 by Stiofan
O’Ceallaigh as a reaction to the Orlando, Florida massacre, Balaclava.Q is
a not-for-profit and relies solely on the passion, motivation and influence of
its volunteers, artists and advocates; an international queer visual art
project and collective that asks artists to look at tactics that disrupt,
activate, instigate and explore contemporary queer concerns. Currently
showcasing works by over 200 international queer artists, this project acts as
a platform and connector for artists and audiences.
This project is supported by a grant from Superbia. Superbia Grants provide financial support for LGBT events as part of Manchester Pride’s commitment to the quality and diversity of cultural events taking place throughout the year in Greater Manchester. https://superbia.org.uk
A Queer Revolt- See our new video by film maker Sophie Broadgate of A Queer Revolt- an action by a bunch of riotous Queers occupying the city skyline with a rainbow smoke flag. Organised by The Penthouse as part of IMPOSE||LIFT as part of our curatorship of Bill Drummond’s Curfew Tower- paired with action in Cushendall titled Pinning Our Colours to the Mast in which we raised a rainbow flag at the tower and declared it a Queer space.
The passerby heard at the end of video shouted “Queers should die”.
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