As part of the Gallery’s observance of the 30th annual Day With(out) Art, the Yale University Art Gallery will be screening the newly digitized Video against AIDS (1989), a compilation that explores the personal and political issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic, in the Gallery’s McNeil Lecture Hall on Thursday, December 5 from 10 am to 3 pm. Produced by artists, activists, and people living with AIDS, these videos were created to build awareness around the AIDS crisis for the mainstream public.

The screening of Video against AIDS will be followed by the event Day With(out) Art, 30 Years On: Film Screening & Discussion, hosted by the Yale University Art Gallery in partnership with Visual AIDS for the 30th annual Day With(out) Art. A screening of STILL BEGINNING (52 mins.), a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F. M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow, will be followed by a panel discussion including featured artist Viva Ruiz in conversation with Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, and Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies; and Alex Fialho, Ph.D. student in the History of Art and African American Studies, to consider the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades.