Luv ‘til It Hurts:
Experiences from Egypt & Brazil
This exhibition presents a series of works from ANKH Association (Arab
Network for Knowledge about Human rights) and Brazilian social artist Alberto
Pereira Jr. It explores the situation of people living with HIV in Egypt and Brazil,
seeking to discuss and resignificate social stigmas related to the disease.
Luv ‘til it Hurts began as a two-year, uncharted project about HIV and Stigma.
An odyssey, of sorts. Yet, a limited set of questions. A discussion that grew into a
team. Its next-life is aligned with our urgency to keep talking… talking in different
directions and including others. The experience of many, once a minefield of
individual fears, instigates the rumbling of collective production power. We’re
gathering our ideas on a common table, and planning for a future whose hope
is in the disruption of our present. We are convinced that to strategize our next
steps we need more than single linear energies, but a group, a multitude of voices
prepared to sing (and shout), to harmonize and also disarrange. Luv ‘til it Hurts
is a platform for real bodies to come onboard and co-pilot its playful unfolding,
one set of interaction generating the next. Alberto Pereira Jr. (Brasil), Brad
Walrond, Paula Nishijima, Todd Lanier Lester, Every Where Alien (US), ANKH
Association (Egypt), Humans as Hosts (Taiwan), Love Positive Women, Nhimbe
Trust (Zimbabwe), Luciérnagas (Colombia) … and morphing. Embark immediately
@LuvTilitHurts / www.luvtilithurts.co
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ANKH Association
Points of Life (2019)
The series ‘Points of Life’ shows four pictures that represent the personal
experiences, joys and challenges of HIV positive people in Egypt, aiming at calling
attention to their situation and starting a discussion on international solidarity
and support.
LUV ‘TIL IT HURTS IS A WORKING
GROUP OF HIV POSITIVE AND
NEGATIVE (NEUTRAL) ARTISTS
AND ACTIVISTS WORKING
ON A RANGE OF HIV-RELATED
STIGMAS DIFFERENTIATED BY
GEOGRAPHY, RACE, GENDER, AGE,
CLASS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE.
WORKING TOGETHER WITH ANKH
ASSOCIATION AND BRAZILIAN
ARTIST ALBERTO PEREIRA JR., WE
IMAGINE FASTER RESOURCES FOR
HIV-RELATED CULTURAL ACTIVISM
AS WELL AS ACKNOWLEDGE
THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST
IN THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT
SURROUNDING HIV/AIDS.
Click on the images above to read testimonials of each picture
Alberto Pereira Jr.
Which touch do we feel when we can no longer touch? (2020)
Documentation of a performance or document-performed? “Which touch do
we feel when we can no longer touch?” it is a provocation-unfolding out of the
suspension of the HIV 2020 Conference resulting from the pandemic of the
new coronavirus. And consequently the shift of the presentation of “Please,
Touch Me”, work of the Brazilian social artist Alberto Pereira Jr., into the virtual
environment. In the original work, the artist offers his self-declared black, queer
and HIV positive body to the audience’s touch, in the hope that it will produce
empathy, resignification, purge and cure of social stigmas. Now, a video gathers
or records the performance via live transmission and a journey of searching for
new possibilities and meanings of the touch between bodies - of his HIV positive
body and others as well - given the threat of physical touch imposed by the
COVID-19 quarantine as recommended by the WHO. Alberto Pereira Jr. will also
be a co-host of one of the “Poetics & Pandemics Curated Open Mic” sessions’,
show created by Brad Walrond for HIV2020.
Duration - around 8 minutes
Created, directed and performed by Alberto Pereira Jr.
Editor: Tiago Coutinho
Sound Editor: TJ Sound
Special Thanks: HIV2020, Luv ‘til It Hurts, Paula Nishijima, Brad Walrond and
Todd Lanier Lester
@albertopereirajr
Luv ‘til It Hurts interviews Alberto Pereira Jr.
Every Where Alien (COMING OCTOBER 2020)
Poetics & Pandemics curated open mic —“Please
Touch Me” special HIV2020 edition
This curated 45min - 1 hour video format co-led by poet multidisciplinary artist
activist Brad Walrond and interdisciplinary performance artist Alberto Pereira
Jr. will convene a curated list of poets creatives and performers from around the
world (New York, São Paulo, Taiwan, UK and/or Netherlands create and perform
their work using as a point of departure Alberto’s utterly human and incisive
invocation “Please Touch Me!” as per his performance and video project of the
same name.
The segment will be led by Brad Walrond and Alberto Pereira Jr. in October
of 2020 and will include brief interview(s) and a curated inclusion of images,
movement, and visual art.
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