PARTICIPANT INC presents Survival AIDS, a major solo exhibition by Hunter Reynolds. Reynolds is a New York artist and activist who has been living with HIV/AIDS since 1984. Survival AIDS spans two decades of Reynolds’ work, incorporating key elements of his ongoing practice—the Blood Spot series, Mummification performances, and Photo Weavings. Reflecting a present state of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Reynolds reconfigures historical material, performance remnants, and a vast collection of newspaper clippings related to HIV/AIDS in a new site-specific installation. 

Saturday, May 7 
Survival AIDS/Hunter Reynolds: Performance & Panel
Panel discussion, 7pm

Visual AIDS, in collaboration with Participant Inc, presents a panel discussion and mummification performance by Hunter Reynolds, on the occasion of Survival AIDS and the Festival of Ideas for the New City. Virginia Solomon, David Deitcher, Nathan Lee, and Anthony Viti will discuss ways in which HIV/AIDS reconfigures queer identity and contemporary visual and performance art from their respective vantage points as art historian, curator, artist, and activist.