Saturday, November 23, 2024 - Sunday, January 12, 2025

AIDS at The New School: What is Remembered?

Location: Aronson Galleries, 66 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011
_{As the HIV/AIDS crisis took an increasing toll on New York City communities, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s, life at The New School hummed along. Classes met, deadlines came and went, and semesters receded in memory. The transient nature of our university community creates unique challenges to remembering and interrogating how HIV/AIDS left its mark at The New School, but also to confronting the ways in which it actively shapes the lives of community members today–and will continue to do so. This exhibit highlights assets from The New School Archives and Special Collections that reveal how this community has lived with HIV/AIDS over several decades. New oral histories from diverse members of The New School community are featured in the gallery to add a contemporary lens to the university’s intersections with the crisis.} 

_{Presented by Stan Walden, Exhibit Curator & Designer}

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm 

Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art Videos + TNS Student Presentation

Location: Kellen Auditorium, 66 5th Ave, Rm 101, New York, NY 10011
_{For Day With(out) Art 2024, Visual AIDS announces Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world. For more info about the videos, check out visualaids.org/projects/red-reminds-me.}

Thursday, December 5, 2024 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

Revisiting the Archive with Ultra-red

(Reception to Follow)

Location: Aronson Galleries, 66 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011
_{“SILENT|LISTEN” is a sound and performance art piece first staged by the activist collective Ultra-red in the early 2000s. The performance toured numerous major North American arts institutions in 2005. Almost 20 years later, “SILENT|LISTEN” will be restaged at The New School. Please join us the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries afterward for refreshments.} 

 
Monday, December 9, 2024 | 6:30pm

Belonging and Care: The Impact of AIDS on Interior Design and Decoration Recorded Panel
(Reception to Follow)

Locations: Kellen Auditorium, Aronson Galleries

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_{Participate in the Decorated podcast’s live-taped episode on the impact of AIDS on the design and decoration community, presented in collaboration with the exhibition AIDS at The New School: What is Remembered?, curated by Stan Walden. Hosts Cotter Christian and Will Fryer will engage in conversation with Stan Walden, Jamie Drake, Ivan Munuera, and Gavin Browning, exploring the profound influence of the AIDS crisis on interiors and interior design. Together, we'll delve into this shared queer history, examining how AIDS shaped the design community of the 1980s, championing spaces of resistance, belonging, and activist housing. The discussion will highlight the generation of design activism that emerged in response to the crisis and the lessons it offers us today. A reception at the Aronson Gallery in the Sheila C. Johnson Gallery will follow.}

_{Decorated is a new podcast dedicated to uncovering the rich history of interior design, spotlighting stories and figures rarely acknowledged in academic or mainstream narratives. The first season premiered on October 30th with an episode celebrating the life and work of Parsons alumnus Melvin Dwork. Hosted by Cotter Christian, an Associate Professor of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design, and interior designer Will Fryer, Decorated takes listeners on an engaging journey through iconic eras, overlooked design movements, and the lives of influential yet often unrecognized figures in interior design history.}