Durban, South Africa, July 16, 2016
This year, London-based artist, archivist, and curator Ajamu and New York and Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and organizer Pato Hebert collaborated on a series of activities at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
This is the second installement of Pato and Ajamu’s collaboration featured on ArtsEverywhere. The first installement can be seen here. A third installement will appear in late August, reflecting on their collaboration and experience at the International AIDS Conference. (https://thenybanner.com/)
On 16 July, 2016 they gave an illustrated plenary at the MSMGF’s “Action + Access” Pre-Conference for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Entitled, “We Liked the Way He Moved”, the talk featured imagery from both artists’ archives, and discussed the role that memory, creativity, and storytelling have played in the formation of queer communities during the time of AIDS.
Their talk also discussed two seminal figures — photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode and oral historian Horacio N. Roque Ramírez — whose efforts have much to teach us in relationship to migration, cultural production, pleasure, and world making. The following video is a recording of their talk, as introduced by George Ayala, Executive Director of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF).
Link to ArtsEverywhere article here
