THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART COMMEMORATES THE IMPACT OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DISEASE
AIDS Awareness Day
December 2, 1996,
4:45 p.m.
The Museum of Modern Art will observe "AIDS Awareness
Day" on Monday, December 2, 1996, with an hour-long program of readings, a
dance performance, and a discussion about new therapies for AIDS.
Admission to the program, which will be held from at 4:45 p.m., is
free of charge. Commemorating the tragic impact of the AIDS epidemic, "AIDS
Awareness Day" has been created to offer hope and support for those
suffering from AIDS or HIV, and to increase awareness of the risks of the
disease. Coinciding with "AIDS Awareness Day" is the exhibition
Projects: General Idea, which presents two AIDS-related
installations by the Toronto art collective General Idea on the highly
charged subject of AZT (see separate Press Release).
The following is
the "AIDS Awareness Day" program:
Welcome and commemorative remarks by
Agnes Gund, President of the Board of Trustees, The Museum of Modern
Art
Statement by artist AA Bronson of General Idea, a collaborative
group formed in 1968 and dissolved with the deaths of artists Felix Partz
and Jorge Zontal of AIDS in 1994
Reading by Jane Smith from "Afterimage"
by John Jesurun, with dance choreographed and performed by Molissa
Fenley
Remarks by John Moore, Associate Professor, Rockefeller
University, and Staff Investigator, The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center,
about new therapies for AIDS
For further information, contact Uri
Perrin, Department of Communications, 212/708–9757.
