It’s been a busy summer! This weekend marked the final days of the Governors Island Art Fair installation of A Graying Pandemic,
a spin-off of the ongoing Graying of AIDS project.

For our participatory installation in the Global Village of the XIX International AIDS Conference – held in Washington, DC, from July 22-27, 2012 – the Graying of AIDS team (Naomi Schegloff, Viviana Peretti and myself) worked with adults age 50+ who are living with HIV/AIDS to create a series of photographic portraits and interviews, exploring what it means to be aging with the virus around the globe.

We were able to create 50 portraits in total, over a span of 5 days, representing 12 countries, 13 American states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Many of the images and quotes are already featured on our dedicated on-line exhibition tumblr, while many others have not yet been posted. We will be adding new material between now and World AIDS Day, Dec 1st, 2012, as we get caught up on transcribing and editing – please check back often:

agrayingpandemic.tumblr.com

Below are some images from our two installations this summer; a small selection of the portraits can also be seen on my website.

Governors Island, 2012:

photos courtesy of Yvonne Seidel and John Trotter

Governors Island Art Fair installation, September 2012

And some behind-the-scenes images from AIDS2012, the XIX International AIDS Conference:

photos courtesy of Allison Shelley, Astrid Riecken and Viviana Peretti