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MIX NYC 30th - Sunday Night Full Pass

Here and Now: Meditations on the Contemporary State of HIV/AIDS

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of AIDS Activist Videos were made by scores of grassroots videomakers, but with the diminution of direct political AIDS activism and the advent of protease inhibitors, the production of video decreased as well.

The political, social and medical conditions around HIV/AIDS have changed dramatically, and desperately need a new generation of moving imagemakers to explore the ramifications of these changes.

Here are eight examples of recent explorations of HIV/AIDS, in hopes that this will inspire many more videos.
Jim Hubbard, curator

Films:
Here and Now
PrEP in the Ballroom Scene
Red Red Red
Going Vital 101
SOL
The Positive YouTubers
DiAna's Hair Ego REMIX
Stones and Water Weight

Design of the Decades

The Design of the Decades showcase presents a stellar group of three mini-showcases by three different curators who have been involved with MIX over the past three decades.

Sarah Schulman, who co-founded MIX in 1987 with Jim Hubbard, is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. She is the author of 18 books, most recently The Cosmopolitans, which Publishers Weekly chose as one of the best American novels of 2016, and Conflict is Not Abuse, winner of the Publishing Triangle Nonfiction Prize. Sarah is currently collaborating with Icon Marianne Faithful on The Snow Queen, a stage play featuring 24 songs from Marianne's career. Sarah is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and Claudia Rankine's Racial Imaginary Institute. She is faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island where she a Distinguished Professor. With Matt Brim and Linda Villarosa, she is co-founder of the HIV/AIDS Studies Institute at the City University of New York.

In 2007, Rajendra Roy joined The Museum of Modern Art as The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, a role in which he leads the Museums year-round initiatives to exhibit and preserve works from its collection of about 27,000 titles. In collaboration with colleagues at MoMA and partner institutions, he has organized exhibitions including Pedro Almodovar (2016), Bruce LaBruce (2015), Wim Wenders (2015), The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (2013), Tim Burton (2011), and Mike Nichols (2009). For the Museums imprint, Mr. Roy authored (with Anke Leweke) The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (2013).

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose new show Adventures in New America, an afro-futuristic sci-fi radio satire series, premieres Spring 2018 on the Night Vale Network. His 2015 feature film Jason and Shirley was called one of the years finest by Richard Brody in The New Yorker. His award-winning 1996 debut film Chocolate Babies premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and enjoyed a 2016 revival at New York's Anthology Film Archives and at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum in 2018. In 2004, Stephen was co-director of MIX NYC experimental queer film festival and produced Jonathan Caouettes landmark narci-cinema feature documentary Tarnation (A.O. Scott, New York Times) which premiered at Sundance, Cannes, LAIFF and NYFF. He has worked creatively with Lee Daniels on The Butler, The Paperboy and Precious, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig & The Angry Inch) and David France (The Death & Life Of Marsha P. Johnson and How To Survive A Plague).

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C. Paige, (aka Christian Paige) hails from North Carolina & now resides in Bronx, NYC. At an very early age it was realized that he would be a star. Before, becoming the beautiful swan that you see now, Christian, was bullied and suffered at the hands off men who said they loved him. His music is the Ultimate Love Story, as it is all mostly personal & true life stories from his own love life, past and present. Since jumping into his music career full-time in 2014, Christian has made some triumphant strides & is now fully engulfed into his dream of entertainment. A chameleon of media, Christian not only sings, but he writes for many prominent artist, hes also a producer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, background vocalist, plus models and just starting acting. His new project Cracks in My Rainbow comes out later this year, in July 2018.

Captain Black + the Maiden is a music project created by Alissa Brianna and Cedric Antonio in New York City. The duo strives to conjure multiple genres of music as healing and conversation through the lived experiences theyve shared. Alissa Brianna, born in Niagara Falls, NY, has an empathetic ear to Jazz, Neo Soul, Acoustic Rock along with a solid presence in Cabaret throughout New York State. Cedric Antonio, born in Baltimore, MD, has an empathetic ear to Folk, Dark Rock, Electro with a presence in Fashion and Gallery Curation in New York City. Both share a background in Gospel, and respectively, a flair for Theatrics. The presentation at MIX will no doubt conjures the same. Captain Black + the Maiden will share a soundscape of music and themes that will be present in projects of this year for both artists. It will also culminate the festival and direct the energy of the collective going forward through another tumultuous, but rewarding year as artists.
https://soundcloud.com/captblknthemaidn/the-come-up
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1022 Wyckoff Ave
Ridgewood, NY 11385
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