TRANSMISSIONS

MACBA is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the Day With(out) Art 2020, by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos examining the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the globe: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Charan Singh (India/UK), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).

The program is not intended to give a comprehensive account of the global AIDS epidemic, but it does provide a platform for a diversity of voices from beyond the United States, offering insight into the divergent and overlapping experiences of people living with HIV around the world today. The six commissioned videos cover a broad range of subjects, such as how women living with HIV in South America are rendered invisible, ineffective Western public health campaigns in India, and the realities of stigma and disclosure for young people in Uganda.
 
As the world continues to adapt to living with a new virus, COVID-19, these videos offer an opportunity to reflect on the resonances and differences between the two epidemics and their uneven distribution across geography, race, and gender.

Project introduction and subsequent discussion led by Lucía Egaña, the artist chosen by Visual AIDS for this edition of a Day Without Art, who also collaborates regularly with the MACBA.