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How can art help to combat serophobia? To mark World AIDS Day, the Jerk Off festival, in partnership with the Maison des métallos, is inviting Apolline Bazin, Victor Marzouk and Regis Samba-Kounzi to discuss the intersection of art and activism, and more specifically the strength of this alliance in the fight against serophobia. Queer communities are at the forefront of this fight, but what has changed from the beginnings of Act Up to the present day? How can artistic expression be used to make political demands? How far do we still have to go in the fight against HIV-related discrimination?
How can art help to combat serophobia? To mark World AIDS Day, the Jerk Off festival, in partnership with the Maison des métallos, is inviting Apolline Bazin, Victor Marzouk and Regis Samba-Kounzi to discuss the intersection of art and activism, and more specifically the strength of this alliance in the fight against serophobia. Queer communities are at the forefront of this fight, but what has changed from the beginnings of Act Up to the present day? How can artistic expression be used to make political demands? How far do we still have to go in the fight against HIV-related discrimination?
How can art help to combat serophobia? To mark World AIDS Day, the Jerk Off festival, in partnership with the Maison des métallos, is inviting Apolline Bazin, Victor Marzouk and Regis Samba-Kounzi to discuss the intersection of art and activism, and more specifically the strength of this alliance in the fight against serophobia. Queer communities are at the forefront of this fight, but what has changed from the beginnings of Act Up to the present day? How can artistic expression be used to make political demands? How far do we still have to go in the fight against HIV-related discrimination?
The selection committee has made its decision. Here is the list of artists selected for the 67th edition of the Salon, which will be held at the Beffroi de Montrouge from 6 to 29 October: Pierre Allain Renaud Artaban Chedly Atallah Geoffrey Badel Flo*Souad Benaddi·FSB Press Nelson Bourrec Carter Alice Brygo Glaive Giskar jr. Loucia Carlier Omar Castillo Alfaro Clara Cimelli Ife Day Caroline Déodat Théophylle Dcx Frederik Exner Garance Früh Mounir Gouri Amine Habki Elen Hallégouët Gala Hernandez Lopez Sarah Illouz & Marius Escande Léa Laforest MASI Collectif / (Madlen Anipsitaki et Simon Riedler) Ibrahim Meïté Sikely Rafael Moreno Théophile Peris Russel Perkins Pierre-Alain Poirier Régis Samba Kounzi Victorien Soufflet Anne Swaenepoël Emma Tholot Kianuë Tran Zoé Tullen Joris Valenzuela Eugénie Zély
Screening "This is not strictly speaking an epidemic" | 42nd International Jean Rouch Festival THURSDAY 11 MAY 2023 FROM 14:00 TO 16:45 "This is not strictly speaking an epidemic" 2022 | France | 131 min | vof A film by Pascal Cesaro, Mario Fanfani and Emmanuel Vigier
At the MEP, on 27 April, based on a curatorial idea by the activists Pascale Obolo, filmmaker, editor and curator, and Marie Docher, photographer and author, a new evening will bring together associations, artists and collectives around the anti-racist struggle and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
At the MEP, on 27 April, based on a curatorial idea by the activists Pascale Obolo, filmmaker, editor and curator, and Marie Docher, photographer and author, a new evening will bring together associations, artists and collectives around the anti-racist struggle and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
Exhibition: Instinct#12 An AIDS Walkthrough Date: April 6, 2023 - April 16, 2023 Curated by Samuel Perea-Díaz & Eric Le Rouge "An AIDS Walkthrough" is an exhibition that brings together contemporary artists and international art practitioners and researchers to facilitate an intergenerational dialogue on the impacts of HIV/AIDS on society. This two-week-long art show will take place in April 2023 at Village, a queer community and cultural center located in Berlin. The exhibition seeks to address important questions, such as how to pass on and honor the memory of a traumatic period in our history, how to show hope for the end of the pandemic with treatments that work, and how to ensure that we do not forget that the fight is not over, especially for our friends who live in countries where prevention and treatment are non-existent. To articulate a dialogue between artists and visitors, the exhibition is divided into three groups that explore the various dimensions of the disease. The first group, "Before 1996," features works that examine the devastating impact of AIDS on the LGBTQ+ community and the inadequate response of the healthcare system to the crisis. The second group, "1996 to the present," showcases works that celebrate the advances in medical treatments and the significant improvements in the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS. The third group, "Today," focuses on the current challenges and opportunities in the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS and highlights the need for continued research, funding, and political will to make HIV treatment and prevention accessible to all who need it. instinct at village.berlin Kurfürstenstraße 31/32 10785 Berlin
What is SLAP? The first edition of queer and feminist book festival, aimed at an adult and child audience. The very first edition will take place on the 1st and 2nd of April 2023 at La Parole Errante in Montreuil, 93. On the programme: round tables, queer and feminist publishers' stands, workshops, readings, food and drink, performances and parties. Saturday 1 April : 5-7pm What archives, what uses? With Hajer Ben Boubaker, Pascale Obolo and Régis Samba-Kounzi, organised and moderated by the collective Cases Rebelles.
Lasseindra Ninja Don’t take it personal ball Lasseindra Ninja, a leading figure in French ballroom culture, has helped make Paris the European capital of voguing, a dance born out of the oppression of the black LGBT community in the United States in the 1970s. This ball allows us to inaugurate the highlight Exposé-es among the energetic and combative vibrations of the voguers who confront each other in performances as extravagant as they are dazzling. Lasseindra Ninja also brings a great wind of freedom with these bravura pieces, since, according to her, voguing promotes the development of one's own identity and emancipation. Freedom for each spectator to make his or her own path, his or her own ramifications between yesterday's and today's questions about the relationship between dance and identity, power, vulnerability, social and political roots, discrimination and taboos, gender and transgender, activism or militancy. Because with voguing too, the struggle continues! With Exposé-es, the CN D is joining forces with the Palais de Tokyo for an exhibition inspired by the situated view of art critic and historian Élisabeth Lebovici in her book Ce que le sida m'a fait (What AIDS Has Done to Me), seeking timeless questions rather than synthetic or analytical elements on the history of AIDS.
Les Pointes Perché-es: a programme of conversations led by Elisabeth Lebovici and François Piron, in the context of the exhibition "Exposed": Join us on 8 March for a discussion on the transmission of the works of the artists who have disappeared.
Benoît Piéron, Flore hospitalière avec rehauts de cyprine, 2022 ©Benoît Piéron, courtesy Galerie Sultana (Paris) EXPOSED From 17/02/2023 to 14/05/2023, Palais de Tokyo Exposed: people who have not chosen to be exposed to a virus, a disease, an epidemic. Exposed: people who have chosen to expose themselves to make this virus, this disease, this epidemic visible. Among these people, artists. Among these viruses and diseases, HIV/AIDS, which caused the deadliest epidemic of the last century, and of this one.
Régis Samba-Kounzi, Sans titre # Couple de jeunes homosexuels, Abidjan, RCI, 2016 © Régis Samba-Kounzi EXPOSED From 17/02/2023 to 14/05/2023, Palais de Tokyo We live today in the company of epidemics that affect all of us, human and non-human alike. Elisabeth Lebovici's book, Ce que le sida m'a fait. Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle, which inspires this exhibition, endeavours to stitch together the subjective fragments of the history of the most deadly epidemic in the last century: facts, works, ideas and emotions that link the material to the immaterial. It questions how the pulsations of desire, lack, anger, pain, memory and the archive have made history. How they have made it possible to (re)compose interrupted genealogies, to federate communities that have produced forms and structures that are still active today, sometimes beyond their initial purpose. How they anticipated certain questions of gender, class and race, as well as the unconsciousness of what is now called validism, that is, the construction of a norm on "good health".
Moyra Davey, Visitor, 2022. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York et Greengrassi, Londres This exhibition takes this book, in a sense, literally: what the AIDS epidemic is doing to artists; what it is doing to an exhibition today. What it has changed in people's consciousness, in society, in creation. AIDS, not as a subject, but as a grid for reconsidering a large number of artistic practices exposed to the epidemic. Beauty comes as a recourse in the face of the political and social consequences of pandemics that are superimposed. In contrast to a commemoration, the exhibition blurs temporalities and brings a discourse to the present, by asking artists to question their history and what has been transmitted to them from the past century. By ignoring the supposed boundary between activism and artistic practice, and by focusing instead on the effects of art (sensitive, cathartic, therapeutic, informative...), the artists in this exhibition meet in ways of doing and speaking, of including their affects and affinities, which are all resources for imagining new articulations between aesthetics and emancipation.
Bambanani Women’s Group, Body Map (Babalwa), 2002. Image courtesy of the Aids and Society Research Unit (University of Cape Town) and the Bambanani Women's group. Artists : Les Ami-es du Patchwork des Noms, the Bambanani Women's Group, Bastille, yann beauvais, Black Audio Film Collective, Gregg Bordowitz, Jesse Darling, Moyra Davey, Guillaume Dustan, Fierce Pussy (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka) & Jo-Ey Tang, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hervé Guibert Barbara Hammer, Derek Jarman, Michel Journiac, Zoe Leonard, audrey liebot, Pascal Lièvre, Santu Mofokeng, Jean-Luc Moulène, Henrik Olesen, Bruno Pelassy, Benoît Pieron, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jimmy Robert, Regis Samba-Kounzi & Julien Devemy, Marion Scemama, Lionel Soukaz & Stéphane Gérard, Georges Tony Stoll, Philippe Thomas, David Wojnarowicz Curator François Piron Scientific advisor Elisabeth Lebovici Curatorial assistant Clément Raveu Exhibition assistant Rose Vidal
Jimmy Robert Pausing As part of Exposed at the Palais de Tokyo, an exhibition that questions the vulnerability of bodies, relationships and identities as manifested in contemporary artistic practices through the filter of the AIDS epidemic, François Piron has proposed a solo exhibition at the Centre National de la Danse by Guadeloupean artist Jimmy Robert (1975, lives in Berlin) that extends and echoes his performance Joie noire (2019), created in homage to the performer, author and curator Ian White, who died in 2013 and who collaborated with Jimmy Robert on several occasions. At once camp and conceptual, affective and structured, Jimmy Robert's work begins with a situated relationship of the body in space, which originates in the work of Yvonne Rainer. From this, he creates performances, images and videos in which mourning and eroticism go hand in hand, making visible queer and racialised bodies - bent, prostrate, tense, but also desiring bodies in the straight space of the institution.
A QUEER PHOTO ARCHIVE Research-creation day under the direction of Nicola Lo Calzo Photography and Queer. How to hold together these two conceptual behemoths, often associated with specific genealogies but in fact linked and rallied by multiple alliances? This research-creation day will attempt to answer this question through the works of contemporary visual artists whose main medium is photography. Saturday 10th december 2022 11am-7pm Free, by reservation at JEU DE PAUME
A QUEER PHOTO ARCHIVE Research-creation day under the direction of Nicola Lo Calzo Saturday 10th december 2022 11am-7pm Free, by reservation at JEU DE PAUME
@Gael Rapon / Zié Kléré October 7 and 8, at the Maison de la Conversation: an interdisciplinary cultural event that questions the cultural representations in which men lock themselves despite themselves. How to identify and deconstruct the injunctions that weigh on men in a patriarchal society? How can we free ourselves from the codes that lock us into a role predefined for us? Between stage and choreographic performance, film creation, photo exhibition, sound experience and conversation, choreographer and director Pascal Beugré-Tellier guides us through these questions with his creation Demasculinize me. This multi-faceted artistic event invites us to take another look at bodies and the tacit laws they obey without understanding them, and to rethink our way of conceiving (gender) identity and its representations. 10 rue Maurice Grimaud 75018
Preview of the DOCUMENTARY "IT'S SEEN A THOUSAND": SCREENING AT THE 24th INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE, AIDS 2022 IN MONTREAL. Coalition PLUS, Frontline AIDS, MPact and Concordia University supported and organized this event.This film is a wonderful team effort, directed by Juan and Pierre Gélas, accompanied by the talents of animation artist Lisa Cruz, composer Patrick Goraguer and directed by Johanna Boyer-Dilolo. "It's Seeing Thousands" is a first-person portrait of Yves Yomb, a leading activist and advocate for the rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV, who died in 2020. The film is produced by the association DokoMundi, NebulArts productions and supported by many associations fighting against AIDS. It will be in the best festivals from the end of 2022.
Making the history of AIDS in the periphery The history of the AIDS epidemic has largely been studied from the perspective of large urban centres, such as Paris, New York or Toronto, and their archive centres. We propose here to counter this historiographical trend and to explore this history from the peripheries, i.e. both from cities considered "secondary" in their continental spaces (as opposed to urban centres such as Paris, London or New York), such as Marseilles or Montreal, but also from rare or even unpublished archives or perspectives. We thus intend to draw up a portrait, both different and complementary, of what this epidemic was, of the way in which populations, in particular sexual minorities, faced it, and of the traces that may have been left in the French-speaking world, in order to question and fill in the blind spots in socio-historical research on the fight against AIDS. Conference organised from Wednesday 11 May 2022 to Thursday 12 May 2022, by Alexandre Klein (University of Ottawa) and Gabriel Girard (Inserm) at the 89th ACFAS conference.
Paul-Emmanuel Odin artistic director La compagnie, place de création, Marseille. & Emma-Romain Bigé Professor of Philosophy / Epistemology of Art at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence. Thematic days VIRALITIES II. "AIDS crisis is still beginning" 21 & 22 March 2022 After a first series of study days devoted to the troubled relationship between art, information and pandemics, the École d'art d'Aix-en-Provence returns to viralities on the occasion of the exhibition HIV/AIDS. How have sexuality, pornography, our relationship to plants, the body, politics and theory been restructured by their encounter with HIV? 
These study days invite artists, activists & theorists to think together about what AIDS is doing to the arts. with Isabelle Alfonsi, Antonia Baehr, Emma Bigé, Sam Bourcier, Marie Canet, Jule Fierl, Paul-Emmanuel Odin, Benoît Piéron, François Piron, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Régis Samba Kounzi and Ghita Skali
On 12 February, at the Maison de la Conversation: an interdisciplinary cultural event that questions the cultural representations in which men lock themselves despite themselves. How to identify and deconstruct the injunctions that weigh on men in a patriarchal society? How can we free ourselves from the codes that lock us into a role predefined for us? Between stage and choreographic performance, film creation, photo exhibition, sound experience and conversation, the choreographer and director Pascal Beugré-Tellier guides us through these questions with his creation Demasculinize me. This multi-faceted artistic event invites us to take another look at bodies and the tacit laws they obey without understanding them, and to rethink the way we conceive (gender) identity and its representations. 10 rue Maurice Grimaud 75018
Exhibition ‟HIV/AIDS - The epidemic is not over! ‟ at the Mucem, from Wednesday 15 December 2021 to Monday 2 May 2022 The exhibition ‟HIV/AIDS, the epidemic is not over! ‟traces the social and political history of AIDS. The fight against the epidemic has revealed situations of inequality and stigmatisation, giving rise to numerous demands for access to treatment and care, the reinforcement of rights, and the visibility of the people and groups affected. By offering both a retrospective and a contemporary view, the exhibition defines itself as a contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Putting AIDS in the museum does not mean burying it; on the contrary, it means reaffirming its relevance, as shown by the title of the exhibition, which takes up a historic slogan of Act Up: the epidemic is not over!
ONLINE SHOW || HIV/AIDS, the live show Discover a preview of the exhibition "HIV/AIDS, the epidemic is not over" by following our special online broadcast on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube on Sunday 12 December at 7pm. A programme presented by journalist Stéphane Stasi, accompanied by Florent Molle (curator of the exhibition), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (Head of the Collections and Documentary Resources Department at the Mucem), the artist Régis Samba Kounzi around one of his works during a walk through the exhibition and Patricia Enel, President of the Coordination Committee for the Fight against HIV in Paca Ouest Corse. The programme can also be followed on the networks of our partners Libération, Komitid, La Provence, Sidaction, TÊTU, MGEN
Launch of the catalogue of the exhibition "HIV/AIDS, the epidemic is not over! Coordinated by : Stéphane Abriol, Christophe Broqua, Renaud Chantraine, Caroline Chenu, Vincent Douris, Françoise Loux, Florent Molle and Sandrine Musso. With contributions from : Stéphane Akoka, Françoise Baranne, Emmanuelle Barbaras, Mary Bassmadjian, Pascale Bastiani, Dominique Blanc, Thibault Boulvain, Camille Cabral, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix, Isabelle Célérier, Michel Celse, Pascal Cesaro, Anne Coppel, Tom Craig, Didier da Silva, Gustave Dah, Hélène Delaquaize, Nicole Ducros, Mario Fanfani, Fabienne Hejoaka, Catherine Kapusta-Palmer Gaëlle Krikorian, Jean-Marc La Piana, Guillaume Lachenal, Gwenola Le Naour, Christophe Martet, Romain Mbiribindi, Paul-Emmanuel Odin, Fabrice Olivet, Patrick Philibert, Alain Pierre, Julien Ribeiro, Giovanna Rincon, Régis Samba-Kounzi, Thierry Schaffauser, Isabelle Sentis, Marie-Hélène Tokolo, Nicole Tsagué, Arnaud Veïsse, Emmanuel Vigier and Jörn Wolters.
Since 2009, the Chéries-Chéris festival is the cultural and avant-garde event that breaks down borders and celebrates differences. This year, the festival will take place in the MK2 Beaubourg, MK2 Quai de Seine and MK2 Bibliothèque cinemas from 20 to 30 November 2021. "I AM SAMUEL" Peter Murimi Kenya, USA, Canada, UK, 70', Documentary, VOSTF Screening on 20 Nov. in the presence of Aude Le Moullec-Rieu, President of ARDHIS, and Régis Samba-Kounzi, photographer.
APELA Congress, 22-24 September 2021 Queer activisms and aesthetics in African literature Programme Thursday 23/09/2021 / 8:30-10:30 Panel 3, salle ZOOM 1 Queer Photography from Africa Moderation : Markus Arnold Nicola lo Calzo (Université Cergy-Pontoise) and Regis Samba Kounzi: Masculinity and queer bodies in the photographic work of Regis Samba Kounzi
APELA Congress, 22-24 September 2021 Queer activisms and aesthetics in African literature Programme Thursday 23/09/2021 / 8:30-10:30 Panel 3, salle ZOOM 1 Queer Photography from Africa Moderation : Markus Arnold Nicola lo Calzo (Université Cergy-Pontoise) and Regis Samba Kounzi: Masculinity and queer bodies in the photographic work of Regis Samba Kounzi
On 21 July 2021, at 6pm (Paris), 5pm (Kinshasa and London), I will participate in the Beyond the Binary webinar entitled "Ubuntu: Defending a Humanity of Difference" with Congolese activists Orphée Mubake, Pamela Tekasala Sirius, Julie Makuala, Scaly Kep'na. The exchange will be moderated by anthropologist Thomas Hendriks. I invite you to register for the webinar here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2B2I5557Rh6X5LydaOO92A This webinar is an opportunity to discuss the experience of Congolese LGBTIAQ+ people and to give voice to our struggle for dignity, and to rehabilitate the history of sexual and gender minorities in French speaking Africa and the Diaspora to lead current struggles against AIDS, LGBTIAQ+phobias and racism. It will also be an opportunity to analyse my documentary and artistic work, which is deeply marked by the fight against HIV/AIDS, in particular, and more generally by the fight against dehumanization, oscillating between autobiographical narrative, aesthetic research and political approach.
See past the constraints of gender and sexuality stereotypes and explore a world with unlimited possibilities, for everyone. ‟The Beyond the Binary‟ exhibition will open on 1 June 2021.
Exhibition of Coalition Plus from 1 to 30 September 2020, in Geneva with the support of AFD - The Agence Française de Développement and the City of Geneva.
How the Global Fund has changed my life‟: four Coalition PLUS activists testify
Photographic Exhibition « Only our courage is contagious »
 At The French Institute of Mauritius from 13 February to 21 March 2020
Screening of ‟Still Angry‟ at the ICASA 2019 conference in Rwanda
Screening of ‟Still Angry‟ at the ICASA 2019 conference in Rwanda
Catching up to HIV in francophone Africa: Lessons for the Replenishment. Side event in the margin of the Global Funds' Sixth Replenishment Conference, October 8, 2019
In the margins of the 6th Global Fund Replenishment Conference, to finance the fight against HIV/AIDS. Screening of the documentary film ‟Toujours en colère‟ by Coalition Plus and DokoMundi, which illustrates the advocacy work of PILS (Mauritius), ALCS (Morocco), ANSS (Burundi) and ARCAD SIDA (Mali) for the rights of key populations. Lyon, October 8, 2019.
3rd edition of the AFRAMED 2019 conference in Casablanca with ALCS MAROC. Friday, September 27, 2019. Exhibition ‟Only our courage is contagious‟ and screening of the film ‟Always angry‟.
Screening on Thursday 26 September 2019 at AFD_France of the Coalition Plus advocacy documentary ‟Toujours en colère‟ on the central role of community actors and key populations in the fight against HIV, stigma, criminalization and for a more effective response.
Exhibition ‟Only our courage is contagious‟ organized by the association AIDES at the City Hall of Poitiers, for the fight against AIDS as part of the national campaign in support of the Global Fund. Until 17 October 2019.
Exhibition ‟Only our courage is contagious‟ and screening of the film ‟Toujours en colère‟ organized by Coalition Plus at the city hall of Nanterre. September 20, 2019.
Exhibition ‟Only our courage is contagious‟ organized by Coalition Plus at the city hall of Courbevoie. September 23, 2019
Exhibition ‟Only our courage is contagious!‟ June 19, 2019 at UHAI-EASHRI, Nairobi, Kenya
Festival NioFar 2019
Festival Niofar 2019
Public representations of AIDS / Mucem — A museum for the Mediterranean
Public representations of AIDS / Mucem — A museum for the Mediterranean
Workshop, ‟Public representations of AIDS‟, Mucem, 24 May 2019
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2019
Coalition Plus Twitter account
Facebook page of the Coalition Plus
Screening and debate around the film ‟Toujours an anger‟ by CoalitionPLUS at the Institut Français. A film on the advocacy of the fight against AIDS in Morocco, Mali, Burundi and Mauritius.
Festival de Douarnenez
Sidaction Symposium at the AFRAVIH 2018 Conference Community Testing Experience with Alternatives Ivory Coast.
Video : https://www.facebook.com/1656730371315609/videos/1962427650745878
In addition to the conference, an exhibition of works by Régis Samba-Kounzi in the hall of 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris
Hornet campaign ‟My life, my app‟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZZmndLwK4&feature=youtu.be
Presentation of the project ‟Minorities‟ on June 14, 2017 At UHAI-EASHRI, Nairobi, Kenya
Exhibition of ‟Lolendo‟ from 11 to 13 May 2017
An exhibition at BOZAR / Palais des Beaux-Arts, as part of the meeting: ‟THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW DEBATE ON THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF LGBTIQ‟
Official poster of the 22nd edition of the Belgian Pride : ‟Asylum and Migration‟
Transversal - March/April 2017 - N°84
Public talk on LGBT activism in the world at University of Amsterdam, march 2017
April 24, 2015. Invitation of Le Kitambala Agité in Nasema the Broadcast on Radio Libertaire (89.4)
World AIDS Day event in Paris in 2001
World AIDS Day event in Paris in 2001
I join Act Up-Paris on June 24, 2000, day of Lesbian and Gay Pride.