Encounters
Luv ’til it Hurts likes to meet people and share what we’re up to. Sometimes we help make events and exhibitions, and we also ‘luv’ informal conversations that become ‘letters’ on the site. See Luv Letters and our other Features. Whether online or in person, we’d LUV to share our game with you. Please use it to make your own encounters if it works; otherwise, let us know how we can participate in what you’re doing. Download the LUV game from site (LuvHurts.co) starting on World AIDS Day, Dec 1 2019.
A Visit With El Santo Taller de Cerámica (Bogotá)
*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, and El Santo is the name that I gave to my work, I’ll tell you a little bit more about the story of El…
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Fresh Designs for Love Positive Women 2020
[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 some new Spanish-language designs, which can be used for years to come as well. I met Power Paola through Daniel Santiago Salguero, who convened the Luciérnagas laboratory. Thanks Daniel and…
Conversa com Vinicius Couto (PT/EN)
[*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 made in São Paulo, Rio and Cairo. I was particularly interested in his idea of getting HIV+ people together, as well as what he says on…
ART, POLICY, AND WELLNESS (1 of 2)
[*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 order to share a unique policy paper that came thereafter as byproduct. This article was originally published by the World Policy Journal on June 9th, 2015. xo Todd]…
artHIVism, Condom Art & a lifetime of caring
[*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 14th International AIDS Conference in 2002. I don’t remember too much about the trip, except that I was presenting a poster with a colleague on community sensitization work on HIV/AIDS we’d done…
Candles & Hearts #LPW2020
[*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 with the theme of Yemanjá and using the posters designed by Thiago. A message from the Office of Human Rights was distributed along with Valentines Day cards. The Human Rights flier encourages HIV+ women…
Scrapbook, Love Positive Women 2020 (#LPW2020)
[*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 cassava stew) for Yemanjá, the goddess for fishermen who is celebrated on February 2nd in Brasil. When I asked poet Brad Walrond to participate, I’d already seen a poem ‘Yemaya’ in his…
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Daniel Santiago Salguero interviews Jacqueline Sanchez for Luciérnagas #LPW2020
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 sientes incómoda podemos parar y no hay problema. ¿Hace cuánto descubriste que tienes VIH? ¿Cómo ha sido todo desde entonces? JS: Bueno, yo descubrí que tengo el…
More info here Daniel Santiago Salguero interviews Jacqueline Sanchez for Luciérnagas #LPW2020
Interview with Cadu Oliveira on LGBTQIA+ organizing in São Paulo #LPW2020
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 from 1996 to 2007, in Jundiaí, with people who have lost their homes. At this point, matters such as HIV/Aids and drug abuse were already…
More info here Interview with Cadu Oliveira on LGBTQIA+ organizing in São Paulo #LPW2020
Emanuel Brauna-Lechat interviews Momô de Oliveira #LPW2020
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, apesar de sabermos recentemente que para o ano de 2020 grandes nomes do STREAM irão injetar alguns milhões no setor, o que é muito positivo, não teremos, por outros lado, políticas…
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Dora Não Cansou de Viver… [A film in the making]
[Emanuel Brauna-Lechat is a filmmaker from Maceió. ‘Dora Não Cansou de Viver…’ is a short film about many things, including access to healthcare and the precarity of daily life in Brasil. Manu needs some help finishing the film before April 7th, World Health Day 2020. One simple way to share holiday cheer (and some dough)…
More info here Dora Não Cansou de Viver… [A film in the making]
The ideas for Partner Tiles
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 back of a laptop. A tile that let him know (if he so desired) he could talk to this person about HIV.…
LUV game feedback from São Paulo + Somos Mais + AIDS Walk
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 meeting on Tuesday nights for a drink. The idea of a Sarau came quickly after the name of the motley group, Somos… or Somos Mais. We are visual artists,…
More info here LUV game feedback from São Paulo + Somos Mais + AIDS Walk
LUV game feedback from Bogotá + Luciérnagas
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 performance intervention in Bogotá’s Botanical Gardens on a Friday night with thousands of people around enjoying the cool night.
LUV game feedback from Grenoble + Ankh Association
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 26th in Grenoble, France. The exhibition gave light to their experiences, joys, and difficulties. It involved the interactive game by Luv ‘Til it Hurts, a Falafel party, and Karaoke.…
More info here LUV game feedback from Grenoble + Ankh Association
Wrap love in latex – Interview with Juan De La Mar
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 the streets of Bogotá (all wrapped in plastic wrap). Juan, first, I really appreciate your film, and furthermore it was great to have it privately…
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Metamorphine Machine Furiosa XXX’s Psyche Pictorial Part III
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Metamorphine Machine Furiosa XXX’s Psyche Pictorial Part II
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Metamorphine Machine Furiosa XXX’s Psyche Pictorial Part I
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Character Development à la Proust
[*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 ask me these questions in a new fresh way. Is that it? Go ahead, and we’ll link my new fresh answers here!] hey ego sum frank (aka Dr. Prof. ego…
Think Twice Questions for Luv
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 join the LUV ‘coalition’ … I’ll explain what that is along the way, but just wanted to say thanks for being in an open-ended conversation with…
A Conversation with Artist Eric Rhein
New York based artist Eric Rhein speaks about his two exhibits, Lifelines, whichhave been on view in his home state of Kentucky.Lifelines is an exhibition at two locations in Lexington: at Institute 193 throughJuly 27 th , and the Lexington’s 21c Museum Hotel, through the end of August.Todd Lanier Lester, of the Luv ‘til it…
Interview With Ankh Association
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 couch in the suburbs of Paris. You two make the Ankh Association that supports LGBTQQI and HIV+ folks in the Middle East…
Eric Rhein: Lifelines
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 event
Luv Till It Hurts by Kairon Liu
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18 from 6-8pm Exhibition dates: October 18-28, 2018 El Museo de Los Sures 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
A discussion to be accountable to …
Event: New generations of HIV/AIDS strategies 6-8:30pm, Saturday, Oct. 27th The Center 208 W 13 St New York, NY 10011
