Mohammed Abdulaziz hadn't heard his mother's most traumatic stories about fleeing Somalia until she began recounting them in a series of interviews for a book..
Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd was originally conceived and performed as part of Danspace Project’s Platform 2016: Lost and Found. Its 2023 reprisal continues to explore and recover the legacies of a generation of artists lost from AIDS complications, centering the choreography and writing of John Bernd, a performance artist active in New York City’s downtown dance scene during the 1980s. Bernd’s piece Surviving Love and Death, performed at Performance Space 122 in 1981, is one of the earliest performance works to address HIV/AIDS, before it even had a name. Co-directed by Miguel Gutierrez and Ishmael Houston-Jones, a friend, collaborator, and caregiver of John Bernd’s, Variations collages and reshapes his body of work, carrying its spirit into the present.
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Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, the most in-depth exhibition to date exploring the formative 1980s activist campaign Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America, will open Tuesday, Sept. 6, at The.