Closing Events Saturday, August 18, 2018 1-7pm 205 Hudson Gallery 205 Hudson Street New York, NY, 10013 FREE and open to the public Zine Fair including The Bettys, Discipline Press, Luna Rio, Precog Magazine, Cósmica, Sula Collective, and others; Panel Discussion; T-shirt making with Joey Terrill; Readings and Reception Performance Night Thursday, August 2, 2018 7pm 205 Hudson Gallery 205 Hudson Street New York, NY, 10013 FREE and open to the public Performance Night featuring Ray Ferreira, Keith Lafuente, and others to be announced. Visual AIDS Talk + Tour of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Tuesday, July 17, 2018 6:30pm 205 Hudson Gallery 205 Hudson Street New York, NY, 10013 FREE and open to the public Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is the first exhibition of its kind to excavate histories of experimental art practice, collaboration, and exchange by a group of Los Angeles based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s. To highlight the New York iteration of Axis Mundo, Visual AIDS and the Hunter College Art Galleries host a guided talk and tour with an intergenerational group of creatives who knew artists highlighted in the exhibition or have been influenced by the artworks included in the show. The Visual AIDS Talk + Tour of this landmark exhibition, curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, will center the work of artists lost to AIDS-related complications with reflections by Simon Doonan on Mundo Meza (19551985) and Aldo Hernandez on Ray Navarro (19641990). To explore the intersections of art, AIDS and activism in the exhibition, the tour will also include comments by J. Soto, Lauren Argentina Zelaya and Alexandro Segade. As noted in the AIDS Activism(s) section of the exhibition: The devastation of the AIDS epidemic was acutely felt by intersecting Latinx and queer artist communities. In the face of government neglect, many artists politicized their practices, often taking inspiration from their earlier participation in gay and lesbian and Chicano rights movements. Working within community and advocacy groups, artists sought to raise awareness and educate through quickly produced and accessible mediums such as video and print material. Many artists memorialized those lost to the disease, while others took up their own mortality and disability as content for their work through abstraction and conceptual distance. Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz and was organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and is organized as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI). The presentation at the Hunter College Art Galleries has been organized in collaboration with Chief Curator Sarah Watson and Exhibitions Manager Jenn Bratovich. Programming organized by Hunter College Axis Mundo exhibition fellows Mathew Galindo, Khari Ricks, and Joseph Shaikewitz
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