Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

350 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard,Newark NJ 07102

01 December, 2021

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Paul Robeson Galleries is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE. Paul Robeson Galleries is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project. From histories of harm reduction and prison activism to the long-term effects of HIV medication, ENDURING CARE centers stories of collective care, mutual aid, and solidarity while pointing to the negligence of governments and non-profits. The program’s title suggests a dual meaning, honoring the perseverance and commitment of care workers yet also addressing the potential for harm from medications and healthcare providers. ENDURING CARE disrupts the assumption that an epidemic can be solved with pharmaceuticals alone, recasting community work as a lasting form of medicine. This program is in conjunction with the exhibition The Magic of Everyday Life: Luis Carle's Queer Translocal Photography. The exhibition's curator, Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Ph.D, will be joined by artist Luis Carle for a post screening conversation. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Luis Carle (b. 1962) is a New York-based Puerto Rican photographer who moved to New York City in the 1980s to study photography at Parsons School of Design and pursue his art. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), El Museo del Barrio, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in San Juan, the Caribbean Museum in St. Croix, The Hague Arts Center in the Netherlands, and the Sarkowsky Gallery in St Petersburg, Russia. In 2014, Carle’s work became part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Ph.D is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature ad Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University. Image credit: J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project, 滴水希望 (Hope Drops), 2021. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021. Still courtesy of Visual AIDS Established in 1979, the Paul Robeson Galleries’ mission and programming embody Paul Robeson’s life-long commitment to unfettered artistic freedom, cultural democracy, and transnationalism. The Paul Robeson Galleries is dedicated to presenting art and cultural artifacts as well as educational and public programming in the spirit of the diverse metropolitan context of Rutgers University – Newark. This mission is carried out in the presentation of visual arts exhibitions, gallery education, and public programs, in a network of exhibition spaces across the Rutgers University – Newark campus and Express Newark. The Paul Robeson Galleries works collaboratively with individuals and organizations to achieve this mission.