Our Bones Glow in the Dark Presented by Visual AIDS | Curated by Louie Ortiz-Fonseca
"Our Bones Glow in the Dark"
Presented by Visual AIDS
Curated by Louie Ortiz-Fonseca
The Center in partnership with Visual AIDS presents “Our Bones Glow in the Dark” Curated. These short videos are curated by Louie Ortiz-Fonseca as part of BROADCAST, a free summer screening series featuring contemporary artists’ responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis through the medium of video.
ABOUT “OUR BONES GLOW IN THE DARK”
Why is the art of storytelling important to social justice movements? One answer is that we exist in a climate that is hell-bent on silencing our voices and disappearing our histories. This program presents short videos that shine light on Black queer and trans survival, community building, and storytelling. When we tell our stories, we are uncovering bones that glow and light our paths to freedom.
ABOUT LOUIE ORTIZ-FONSECA
Louie Ortiz-Fonseca is an Afro-Puerto Rican person living with HIV and the creator of Gran Varones, a digital project that explores pop culture, queer history, and storytelling through an Afro-Latinx queer lens.
ABOUT BROADCAST
BROADCAST highlights curated selections from Visual AIDS’s video commissions alongside new and historical AIDS video, including the US premiere of two international projects. In tandem with the series, Visual AIDS is launching a new online archive of past video commissions at video.visualaids.org.
BROADCAST features six unique screenings from June 8–July 9 at venues across New York City. Full details are available at visualaids.org/broadcast.
Image caption: Tourmaline, still from ‘Atlantic is a Sea of Bones’, 2017. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
DETAILS
Saturday, July 9
4 p.m. ET