Not Alone
After key works in MAKE ART/STOP AIDS were returned to lenders, the remaining art works, with significant new additions, toured South Africa February 2009-January 2010. Venues included the Durban Art Gallery; Museum Africa (Johannesburg); The Castle, Iziko Museums of Cape Town,…
After key works in MAKE ART/STOP AIDS were returned to lenders, the remaining art works, with significant new additions, toured South Africa February 2009-January 2010. Venues included the Durban Art Gallery; Museum Africa (Johannesburg); The Castle, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South Africa. Not Alone was co-curated by Carol Brown and David Gere.
For more than twenty-five years prior to Not Alone, artists around the world had joined with activists, medical experts, and others to inspire, provoke, and guide the radical changes that the AIDS crisis demands. Not Alone demonstrated how the arts have responded to HIV/AIDS and how their work can raise awareness, inspire activism, and ultimately help end global AIDS.
Featuring artists from India, Brazil, the United States, and South-East Africa, Not Alone presented contemporary works of art of various media including painting, sculpture, photography, performance (videos), digital media, installation art, and others. Notable works included: the iconic Medicine Man mobile, by San Francisco artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas, a six-foot-tall human shape constructed entirely of pill bottles; a set of scroll paintings from artists in West Bengal, India, that represent a community-wide response to stigma and fear; couture dresses by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini, made entirely from factory-rejected condoms; and a large-scale photographic print of 99 portraits by Gideon Mendel, which demonstrate how health can be restored through adherence to antiretroviral treatments by the residents of Lusikisiki, South Africa.
When the exhibition toured to Johannesburg, an enduring collaboration was established with the Drama for Life program at the University of the Witwatersrand to mount theater events and workshops in concert with the exhibition. Performance and dance pieces as well as installations were created to engage with the exhibition space in an intense, dramatic, and captivating way. Relevant workshops were conducted directly in the museum space as well.
Details
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| Date | February 2009–January 2010 |
| Venues | Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa; Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa; The Castle, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Curators | Carol Brown, David Gere |
| Organized by | UCLA Art & Global Health Center |
| Partners | Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand |
