AIDS & ITS METAPHORS: An Evening of Poetry and Prose Readings

ISSUE Project Room and Visual AIDS co-present an evening of readings at Artists Space Books & Talks from impassioned writers and artists Gregg Bordowitz, Timothy DuWhite, Pamela Sneed, Lynne Tillman, and Jessica Whitbread (of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Romance Starts at Home). Readings of poetry and prose address topics related to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including reflections on artists from the Visual AIDS Artist Registry and personal correspondence between those living with HIV. AIDS & ITS METAPHORS is produced in conjunction with the inaugural publication of Visual AIDS' DUETS series, Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in Conversation (2014), which features a conversation between Gregg Bordowitz and Visual AIDS Artist Member Stephen Andrews. DUETS is a series of publications that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV/AIDS. In the first publication of the series, Gregg Bordowitz speaks to longtime friend Stephen Andrews about painting, poetry, cosmology, and survival. Lynne Tillman pens the publication's foreword. Free - http://issueprojectroom.org/event/aids-and-its-metaphors