December 4, 2025
In recognition of the 2025 Day With(out) Art and World AIDS Day, the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, and Public Humanities at Yale partnered with arts nonprofit Visual AIDS to present a special double screening on December 1. The program began with Blue (1993), the final film by director Derek Jarman, which meditates on the experience of AIDS with unflinching clarity, against a single field of blue. Lily Waterton (Jock Reynolds Fellow in Public Programs, Yale University Art Gallery) introduced the film.
After an intermission and reception, the program continued with Meet Us Where We’re At (2025), a collection of six short videos commissioned by Visual AIDS as part of its annual program. The videos highlight the experiences of drug users and harm-reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis, featuring work by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal), Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil), Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), and José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico). Jackson Davidow (Project Manager for Public Engagement, Yale Center for British Art) introduced the anthology.