The first thing I want to say is ’thank you’ to all the people–artists, non-artists, poz and negative folks–who took part in Luv...

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at. – Oscar Wilde[1] Words by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (1969-2015); presented as...

In WHITE I exclaimed how nice it was nice to put the final touches on the LUV archive in December only 6 months after the ‘official’ closing in July...

A collection of essays, artistic contributions, and two inserted zines, “Cidade Queer, uma Leitora” was developed as part of an 18-month inquiry in São Paulo....

Cruising Quito was a project that I developed in the framework of Cidade Queer Quito, from June 28 to July 8, 2017. The project included a residency at No...

A collection of essays, artistic contributions, and two inserted zines, “Cidade Queer, uma Leitora” was developed as part of an 18-month inquiry in...

“Initiated by Lanchonete.org and ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes, the Cidade Queer program was a broad collective inquiry into how can we understand the...

As is stated prominently, LUV is an HIV ‘scrapbook of sorts’ and as such influenced by my stream of consciousness, as well as that of other key...

[*In Some remarks before I make the video, I say I’ll make a video for the launch of E&H Lab’s CHAOS project. Instead I decided to reconsider...

Institute 193, the innovative gallery and publisher, has announced the publication of Eric Rhein: Lifelines This is the first book from artist Eric Rhein: a...

Image: PogoLand As early as the 1st ‘About’ page: A discussion to be accountable to, the creation of a ‘philanthropic device’ was mentioned, and...

Luv ’til it Hurts was at first a two-year project, and is now something much more. I admit that I don’t want to limit its future potential by saying...

Image by Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria In January 2018 and speaking on freeDimensional, I was invited to give a co-keynote address on day two of the 10th...

Image by Todd Lanier Lester In Why Make an ‘Open Work’? I begin to discuss DURATION, and why a project like LUV would have an initial, formal (albeit arbitrary)...

[*In 2017 whilst participating in Capacete’s mobile school project on the occasion of Documenta 14 ‘Learning from Athens’, Gian Spina edited a...

[*In the process of making Luv ’til it Hurts (starting with a two-year staged impersonation by its alter-ego, Luv Hurts), I began working with fellow...

[*In 2017 whilst participating in Capacete’s mobile school project on the occasion of Documenta 14 ‘Learning from Athens’, Gian Spina edited a...

The author and activist Larry Kramer at an AIDS conference in New York in 1987. In the early 1980s, Mr. Kramer was among the first people to foresee that what...

Pictured: Brad Walrond and Alberto Pereira Jr. poetics & pandemics is conceived as a Quarterly virtual publishing & performance platform that takes...

[*For HIV2020, Juan De La Mar screened his autobiographical film, De Gris a POSITHIVO as part of a panel on 1st person narration along with Mariana Iacono,...

Eric Rhein Frank the Visionkeeper (Frank Moore 1956-2002) (from Leaves, an AIDS Memorial) 2013, wire and paper, 16”x13”x2” 1. There are more than 300...

Eric Rhein Hummingbirds – Installation of Six 2016, wire and paper, (each one is 16”x13”x2”) For Eric Rhein there is a metaphysical aspect to creating his wire...

LUV is messy, a can ‘o worms … NO, rather a diorama encasing the heart, leaf, spaceship, firefly, hummingbird & ankh, symbols that advance its plot....

[*The working group that comprises Luv ’til it Hurts–Brad Walrond, Paula Nishijima & Todd Lanier Lester–asked designer / installation...

Originally HIV2020 was to be held in Mexico City as an alternate meeting to AIDS2020 that was to be held in San Francisco. The biennial AIDS conference is a big...

When I first put out tent pegs for Luv ’til it Hurts (LUV), I framed it as a two-year period of R&D. The duration of the R&D is the (art) work....

Game of Swarms will be thus a communication device as well as a register of the artistic research upon how dynamics of networks in nature can be used as a tool...

[*When the project began, I wrote a piece entitled Why Make an Open Work? where I used some borrowed ‘game storming’ graphics to show the chaos...

Could Be The Ballroom was always our Nuclear option A rock scrabble bunker become a threshing floor How we survived our Coldest War A Mother a Father an entire...

[*In February and back before Covid19 suspended travel (and life as we knew it) a group of LUV peeps met in NYC to work on the ’next-LUV’ or an...

[*Back at the end of 2019, a group of eight called SOMOS (or ‘SOMOS Mais’) formed in São Paulo to coordinate activities for December 1,...

*Spanish below EN LTIH: Do you prefer being called Sergio or El Santo? ES: You can call me anything, I like both, Sergio is the name that my parents gave me,...

“De Gris a POSITHIVO” Documental Autobiográfico de Juan De La Mar que hace parte de Luv ’til it Hurts, se encuentra seleccionado para “Media...

[*After some meetings in NYC in February (2020), the LUV team set about a visioning process that should yield the project’s next phase–with a new...

Brainstorming in New York at the Goethe Institut [*From February 9-11, 2020, Luv ’til it Hurts was busy in NYC. LUV participated in Love Positive Women (a...

Eric Rhein Communion with Oak (self-portrait) 1998, gelatin silver print, 20”x16” I walk with the shadows of the men I’ve known, and loved, and tasted, and...

Image: ‘Hummingbirds’ (Installation of 6), 2016, by artist Eric Rhein I wanted to elaborate more on the concept of ’transcendence’, mostly because I...

[On the occasion of Love Positive Women 2020, a project by Jessica Lynn Whitbread and partners around the world, Colombian graphic artist, Power Paola offered...

[*Early this year I got the chance to talk to Vinicius Couto in São Paulo about three strands of his work. The article contains images from a performance he...

[*A few years back, I created a meeting concept called Artist Roundtable (or A.RT) … I want to resuscitate this particular discussion on health and wellness in...

[*The Arts-Policy Nexus, a Health-Focused Artist Roundtable (A.RT), and this policy paper are all ideas - a program and two of its byproducts - I came up with...

‘Stealing’ the LUV Game is a bit easier than Hoffman’s book. It is free to begin with. I tell the story of how the LUV Game came about first...

[*Five or so years ago Canadian artist Niki Singleton and I made a Facebook project called Coming Out of the Web 2.0 Closet. We both had a story whereby...

[*A longer EN language interview is available below for download; Todd Lanier Lester interviews Adriana Bertini for LUV.] TLL: We met first in Barcelona at the...

Image taken at Oct 25 (2019) Luciérnagas performance Before the presentation we did some in situ rehearsals, although they were never enough, we did them. The...

[*Working together with the City of São Paulo office of Human Rights, George Ferraz prepared (styled) two downtown cultural spaces for Love Positive Women 2020...

[*When I asked NYC-based artist Thiago Correia Gonçalves if he’d like to help make a Love Positive Women event, he proposed making Bobó (shrimp and...

About fifteen years ago, my friend Dani called me to help her with the costume for a short film. She asked me for red clothes and accessories—specifically, an...

DSS: Buenas tarde, Jaque, gracias por estar aquí y colaborar con esta entrevista. Te voy a hacer unas preguntas que ya conoces. Si no quieres responder o te...

[*I first met Oma working in the legal aid clinic for Iraqi refugees in Cairo set up by Barbara Harrell-Bond back in 2007. To read more about our background,...

Behind the curtain “أنا مريضة إيدز ونفسى أتعامل كبنى آدمة، معملتش حاجة غلط علشان المجتمع ينبذنى ولما بمرض مش بلاقى دكتور يعاملنى كويس، وبقيت أخاف من الناس...

LTIH: You have been involved with LGBT and HIV activism for some time now. How long have you been doing this in São Paulo? CO: My trajectory with activism began...

EBL: Momô, qual a sua avaliação sobre o cenário cinematográfico de um modo geral no Brasil? MO: Vejo o cenário cinematográfico no Brasil com muitas incertezas,...

[*When I asked Thiago if he’d like to make a meal in NYC–something we’ve done together a few times in São Paulo and once in Bamako–he...

If writing is a committed utopian action, then the Jean Genet of Edmund White’s engaging, impressive, transformative Genet: A Biography was the epitome of manic...

[*It is very exciting (and an honor) to get to imagine and implement ideas for Love Positive Women 2020 in Khartoum (Sudan), New York City (US), São Paulo...

Image: $oropositiva, by Micaela Cyrino for LovePositiveWomen2019 Collage on greaseproof paper and serigraphy 30 x 40cm In some ways the whole LUV experience has...

This year Love Positive Women is so big for us it constitutes an ACT … Act 1.5 to be exact. The acts are dramaturgically useful for steering Luv...

Watch: INGABIRE “Gift” (2005), by Jesse Hawkes. For its first Rwandan Film Festival in 2005, the Rwanda Cinema Centre helped several young directors...

Watch: Queer City / Cicade Queer, by Danila Bustamante. Bodies that listen, dance, resist, manifest and become visible in our contemporary city. Bodies that...

[ *Back during the making of Cidade Queer (an inquiry opened by Lanchonete.org), I got the chance to ask some colleagues their views on queerness and a right to...

[*Alberto Pereira Jr. first made ‘Please, touch me’ for a 2019 workshop in São Paulo. His production notes are the third in a series that also...

[*Polish artist and architect, Jakub Szczęsny is helping to lead ACT III. LUV’s denouement is gonna be a blast! Stay tuned!!]

WHERE: USA - New York I first encountered the work of Astraea in 2007. I was living in Egypt and met some of the sexuality rights movement-builders from the...

A Associação da Parada do Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo, ONG responsável pela maior Parada LGBT do Mundo, vem comunicar que após reuniões realizadas nos meses de...

I. Levantou-se. Dentro da privada, mescla de prazer e necessidade. A. se viu refletido no espelho pela primeira vez. Olhos ainda vermelhos, cabelo desgrenhado,...

[*A few years ago (2013), graphic artist Beldan Sezen was in the Netherlands and needed some quick photos of a historic scene. The graphic short she was making...

I cannot remember what was my first AIDS work. It was either flying from Cameroon to South Africa with my wife (at the time) to attend and volunteer at the...

hi guys, So, I’ve had an idea for you both for around 6 months now and have regrettably failed to share it in a robust form. I would like to do so now. We...

alvos desde sempre porque não hegemônicos corpos reclassificados incômodos inconformes marginais seculares preto feminino não-binário trans intersexual...

[*The pink elephant image is borrowed from a Facebook intervention made by Niki Singleton and Todd Lanier Lester several years ago called Coming out of the Web...

[Emanuel Brauna-Lechat is a filmmaker from Maceió. ‘Dora Não Cansou de Viver…’ is a short film about many things, including access to...

[* For the LUV site, this is part two of a set. Let’s call it the Elpenor Set. See part one, here.] It never ceases to baffle and amaze me whenever an...

[* For the LUV site, this is part one of a set. Let’s call it the Elpenor Set. See part two, here.] The purpose of this ’entry’ is to introduce...

[*Bruno Mendonça e Felipe Caprestano - Terra Falsa (parte do projeto “Nenhuma Intenção Revolucionária”)] O uso da palavra vírus para além do campo...

I vomited tonight … earlier today. I had taken an ecstasy pill. I may have used a couple other things as well. I’m a Taurus ‘control...

[ACT I entailed a lot of things, and one of the most significant outputs is a GAME made by project members and artists/designers in Egypt. There is also this...

[Abazar Hamid was forced to leave Sudan for singing peace songs during its civil war and the Darfur conflict. I met him when I was working for freeDimensional...

Sudanese like other people of this planet, search for many things, some are really important researches and of course there are other things that are also...

We take drugs. A colleague of mine, Carué Contreiras gives away spices and herbs in his HIV med bottles. Artist Kairon Liu ( 劉仁凱 ) makes portraits in which he...

No solo un día al año, no solo el primero de diciembre necesitamos que pongas en tus perfiles cintas rojas y recuerdes todos los grandes personajes que nos ha...

The original idea for an iconic tile came from Saouf in Port Said. He imagined what it would be like to walk into a Cairo cafe and see an iconic tile on the...

This article is a field [luv] note to Luciérnagas and friends in Bogotá. I was there for a project by Daniel Santiago Salguero and his HIV+ peers. Fireflies,...

In order to facilitate access to funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the Community Leadership and Action Collaborative (CLAC)...

About a month before the São Paulo AIDS Walk (now in its 3rd year), which was also on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2019, a group of positive folk and peers began...

The first public presentation of Exposition Points de Vie, organized by Ankh Association and dedicated to people living with HIV in Egypt, took place on October...

As I detail in Relatory Bogotá, I got to take part in the final piece of Luciérnagas with artist Daniel Santiago Salguero, offering me up-close access to a...

So George and I had this idea for an intervention in the São Paulo AIDS Walk, which happens on or around World AIDS Day, December 1 (yesterday). A group of us...

“Medicine Man.” (40x30 inch), by Issa Nyaphaga. (Mixed media) paint from 2013 - 2014. Santa Fe, NM - USA. “HIV-AIDS Stigma Free.” - Issa...

TL: Hi Juan, If memory serves this is a line in your film, De Gris a POSITHIVO … ‘wrap love in latex?’. I think it is when you are walking in...

Bodies containing Fireflies that wander through the nocturnal jungle, emitting calls and small sparks of light for courting and to find copulation. They remind...

I do luv this term: starfucking …. star (*) fucking. While it is not used (as such) it is something that is present in the Sontag biography I read. Like...

This sorrowdoes not belong to you it belongs to the air that evaporates to the light that shatters like glass You take to the street with the crossbow tensed...

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Thirty years after its completion, my novel People in Trouble has taken on resonance far beyond my original passions and intention. Its most notorious cultural...

For all responses, see: MetaMorphineMachineFuriosaXXX

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Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría 7 septiembre sesión #7 cuerpos fluidos artista invitado: Juan Manuel Mosquera lugar: Jardín Botánico de Bogotá Taller...

Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría 24 Agosto sesión #6 disidencia sonora artista invitado: Mauricio Rivera Henao lugar: Adorno – Liberia Relatoría: Mauricio...

Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría Agosto 10 - 2019 sesión #5 grupo de estudio Invitada: Constanza González Relatoría: Constanza fue directora de la Lida...

_____________________________________ Support Marina Vergueiro’s crowdfunding for the PROJETO EXPOSTA _____________________________________ Eu tive Aids...

HIV2020: Community Reclaiming the Global Response Mexico City, July 6-8, 2020 www.hiv2020.org -–Background— Human rights conditions in the United...

[*I totally misunderstood what you wanted me to do with the ‘Proust Questionnaire’ and just answered the original. I get it now … you’re gonna...

Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría 27 Julio sesión #4 Arte y fronteras políticas Invitadas: Melissa Guevara Artista Laura Echeverri Abogada derechos humanos...

Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría 13 Julio sesión #3 Arte / VIH Invitados: Fernando Arias José Fernando Serrano Juan Betancurth Relatoría: Fernando habló de su...

You’ve all heard about the gay content shows being cancelled or censored all over Brasil. Maybe you heard of the Sexualities show at MASP a couple years...

A guy from Mexico contracted HIV. We had condomless sex. I remember this well. Some four years after our hook-up he contacted me because of Luv ’til it...

Laboratorio Luciérnagas Relatoría 15 junio sesión #1 Contexto del cuerpo en las Artes (para artistas y no artistas) Escuchamos la pieza sonora de John Cage...

Hi Deza, I’ve been thinking about something and I’d like to share it. Perhaps these are thoughts that go into the production of a short video clip....

A discussion to be accountable to … Luv ’til it Hurts is about HIV and stigma. Discussion, campaign, mechanism, agency. All of these words describe the vision...

My name is Todd Lanier Lester and I started the project, Luv ‘til it Hurts, a two-year project on HIV & stigma. The Think Twice Collective has agreed to...

Company - S_elf Portrait_ 1998, silver gelatin print, 20x16 inches Introduction In “A Conversation with Eric Rhein,” an interview on this website, Eric was...

Hi Deza, Luv ’til it Hurts is a two-year project focused on HIV and Stigma. CHAOS is a campaign about mental health. As a person who has a chronic mental...

Luciérnagas Laboratorio: Arte | fronteras | VIH proyecto de arte por Daniel Santiago Salguero Querido Todd. Respondiendo a tus preguntas del último correo te...

Conceived by Luv ’til it Hurts participants during a design workshop in Port Said, Egypt, the LUV_GAME is inspired by The Long Table, a performance...

TL: Hi Deza .. we’ve known each other for over a decade now and met through my beloved Cameroonian network and when I was making freeDimensional. You are...

New York based artist Eric Rhein speaks about his two exhibits, Lifelines, which have been on view in his home state of Kentucky. Lifelines is an exhibition at...

Luv ’til it Hurts is the third in a series of durational, multi-stakeholder, rights-focused art works: freeDimensional (2003-12), Lanchonete.org...

Lundi 1er juillet, à l’initiative de l’ Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), ANKH (Arab Network for Knowledge about Human rights), Cairo...

TL: A mutual friend and queer activist in Cairo was helping me find a place to stay in Paris only a few days before my trip. I somehow end up sleeping on your...

I launched Luv ’til it Hurts, a long-considered project on HIV and stigma in July 2018. The project goes through the middle of 2020 officially, and yet I’m also...

Our partner Eric Rhein opens a beautiful exhibition at Institute 193, showing from June 19 - July 24. Don’t miss it! See: Institute 193’s Facebook...

[*Before Pony Zion took part in Cidade Queer and Luv ’til it Hurts, I had the opportunity to attend one of his workshops in Lecce, Italy. xot] In his own...

See also: Luv ‘Til It Hurts: the Launch, by Brad Walrond

Luv ‘Til It Hurts was formally launched October 27, 2018 at the historic LGBTQ Center in New York City. In keeping with Luv ‘til it Hurts stated mission, ‘’to...

I. When I was raped, first he bought me cigarettes. Both of us hilariously drunk, he followed me into the bathroom, came up behind, then yanked my pants down...

We do not tread the way that is conducted by reason! The white-born reason, from white Greece… So pale and thirsting for blood… Reason built insane asylums and...

By Ayu Oktariani I was living with HIV for 8 years when I decide to pregnant. It’s been a long journey to make that decision. Waiting for the man who understand...

Joyce McDonald is an artist in many senses of the word. She is, of course, a literal artist: a talented painter and sculptor whose works often capture in stark...

My art practice has always been tied into what is happening around me. I am constantly seeing and hearing things that really need to be manifested as visual. In...

I am grateful for community. For me, I find the most healing when I find community with others living with HIV. When I can share and hold space with another...

Written by Nic Holas for The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism “Build bridges with groups made invisible to society because of fear, phobia, racism,...

L’Orangelis Thomas Negron January 31st San Juan, Puerto Rico Lo más práctico que aprendí del amor, fue durante el proceso de sanación de la última depresión...

For more than Thirty years, The same doors swing open, While rusty ones slam shut. I am and have been HIV-positive 11,000 days. Why is this virus different than...

By Wanda Hernandez Parks Chair on the board of Directors of Vocal-NY, cofounder of the Women Empowerment Art Therapy group, with Shirlene Cooper. I have...

. It is nothing new that there is a project of extermination on course, it did not begin yesterday and it will not end tomorrow… a project that aims at profit...

Being invited to write as an artist, to be celebrated for the campaign Positive Affirmation Day, felt great. I had a sense of pride, a warmth, a worthiness,...

Written by Jessica Whitbread for The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism In 2012, Olive Edwards supported the Jamaican Community of Positive Women (JCW+)...

The definition of an artist collective is, an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective, this is also...

Deloris Dockrey How do you love yourself! When you are told that you are worthless, no good and lazy. When you are told that you are fat and useless. When you...

LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW) happens each year between February 1st–14th. It is a global project, conceptualized in 2012 and implemented in 2013, raising awareness...

Piece: $oropositiva** Collage on greaseproof paper and serigraphy 30x 40** Micaela Cyrino, 30, is a visual artist and militant of sexual and reproductive...

 1. Across generations of continents What do it mean to be haunted? by a virus. A bluegrass grandma in Sparta, Tennessee died today; So did Ntozake Shange. I...

“It is just another coin in the pouch. Sometimes it comes out heads; it’s a blessing. Sometimes it comes out tails; it’s a curse”....

Our DNA, the map of our genetic information (our growth, development, functioning, and reproduction), is 99.9% the same for each and every one of the 7+ billion...

Hi all this is a report that the musician that worked with me producing and thinking the music of my last completed worked named “Fantasia casi soneto después...

PORTRAIT OF AN ORAL HISTORY BETWEEN KARION LIU & THEODORE (ted) KERR **A. **He is an artist and I am a writer. We call each other Kai and Ted. We are both...

photo: Cadu Oliveira My upstairs neighbor, Carué is a medical doctor and AIDS activist. While he doesn’t front as artist, he has a cool project (that occurs to...

Coletivo Amem is a São Paulo-based artistic collective that promotes festivals, performances and debates focusing on race, class, gender, and public health....

The Social Practice of Jessica Lynn Whitbread My community mother, Darien Taylor, was one of the first women living with HIV to do direct action with AIDS...

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18 from 6-8pm Exhibition dates: October 18-28, 2018 Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 12-6pm El Museo de Los Sures...

A discussion to be accountable to … _New generations of HIV/AIDS strategies _6-8:30pm, Saturday, Oct. 27th See video of the House of Zion debut performance that...