Pilot Light: Debates and exchanges on contemporary art, artist talks and decoding societal issues
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Artist talks with artists in residence:
Mehdi A. and Anna-Katharina Scheidegger
Lille, Maison Folie Moulins
16.02 at 18h30
The discovery of art work is always exciting. Come meet the artists Anna-Katharina Scheidegger –in residence at the Hôpital St Vincent de Paul in Lille- and Mehdi A [...]

Mehdi A.
Transfert, 2009
Production of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque

The work of Mehdi A. is centered around meetings and connections. His performances reflect daily life, revealing small details previously unseen, and perhaps adding a bit of magic to it. The installation Transfert is being built gradually, following the path of the public, the residents, [...]

In cooperation with the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the ArtAids Foundation, Espace le Carré, Maison Folie Moulins, Lycée Européen Montebello, Cinéma associatif de quartier l’Univers, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul (Lille) and Hôpital Gustave Dron (Tourcoing) will offer an international approach which is closely linked to the onset of AIDS in the 80s, as [...]

A project organised by ArtAids with the participation of twenty artists from Barcelona or with a special link to the city. The project is driven by a desire to increase awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with HIV. The curator of the exhibition, Miquel Bardagil, sees it as the culmination of a project that began in 2008 and encompasses a very wide range of activities, some in collaboration with other institutions. In general, most of the artists participating in the project had not previously worked with the subject of Aids in any significant way, and thus the exhibition avoids predictable approaches and opens up new ways of seeing.

Visitors of the event Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.nu will be able to see one of Adriana Bertini’s ‘condom dresses’ and Cover, the series of photographs by Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig, commissioned by ArtAids. Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.nu is initiated by Bert Koenders, the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation. The event will take place on September 26, 2009 in the Fokker [...]

BECA/GRANT ART AIDS
Mataró artist, Veronica Aguilera, with her project “En volver”, has been named winner of the Grant awarded by the ArtAids Foundation in collaboration with Can Xalant. The Grant provides production funding for a new video project relating to the issue of AIDs. The completed work will be exhibitied in December.

Benicàssim

Gerald Van der Kaap’s work ‘Yes, Negative’ was a big succes during the FIB-Heineken festival from July 16 to 19. Yes, Negative consists of two vans containing video installations in which a doctor directly addresses the viewer to explain issues related to the AIDs test procedure, in order to reduce people’s fear of taking [...]

In cooperation with the Academic Medical Centre (University of Amsterdam), ArtAids presents five series of photographs by Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig. The series, commissioned by ArtAids, present a kaleidoscopic image of five young women and their lives in Moscow. Adriana Bertini’s ‘condom dresses’ in the H+F Collection were the point of departure for Cover. [...]

deadline 27 March 2009
The Barcelona ArtAids Foundation, with the collaboration of Can Xalant, Centre for Creation and Contemporary Thought in Mataró, is organizing a competition that will result in the awarding of a production grant for the purpose of funding a video project.
Through the grant, the two organizations aim to contribute to the promotion and [...]

2008 – Thailand
In connection with ArtAids’ More to Love project, Nuts Society and Practical Studio have created a range of products which are sold to benefit HIV-NAT. The products, which include bags, T-shirts, underwear and pins, all feature the Plus Equal logo, a symbol of social equality created from the  “+” and “=” signs.
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The works created for the ArtAids event More to Love: The Art of Living Together travelled on to Chiang Mai after their first successful showing in Bangkok. The Chiang Mai University Art Center shows More to Love from 28 November to 19 December 2008.
The catalogue of More to Love is now available. It documents all [...]

On 24 July 2008 HRH Princess Somsawali will open the ArtAids event More to Love: The Art of Living Together at The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
More to Love is a multifaceted event which aims to fight stigma around HIV in Thailand, using contemporary art as a tool.