On HIV/AIDS Cultural Production from the Global South

This archiving/ documentation workshop aims to have a discussion on the motivations, values, processes and goals of a research that initiates the recovery of HIV/AIDS history in cultural production. Departing from the initial questions formulated by curator and writer Shaunak Mahbubani displayed in the shelves of the SAVVY.doc, the session invites interested participants to gather and rethink practices of documentation in order to address the invisibility and disvisibility of and in HIV/AIDS historical project.

RENAN LARU-AN  is the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary.

SHAUNAK MAHBUBANI is a curator-writer based between Berlin and Mumbai. They explore possibilities of co-visioning futures grounded in the pursuit of non-duality, striving to hold complexity, fluidity, ambiguity, and mutability in investigating the boundary between the self and other. Their work focuses on practices that foreground personal and ancestral lived experiences, towards the resuscitation of wounded archives. They are currently working on Wrapped in the Shadow of Freedom (Prishtina, Aug 2024). Recent projects include The Albanian Conference (initiated by Anna Ehrenstein) at the 4th Lagos Biennial (2024), When the Moon was Nine Months Full by Seema Kohli (Tao Mumbai, 2024), Parag Tandel: Archipelagic Archivist (TARQ Mumbai, 2023), AUTOPOIESIS (2022–ongoing, Mexico City, New Delhi, Berlin), Party Office at documenta fifteen (co-curated with Vidisha-Fadescha, Kassel 2022), DANCE TRANS* REVOLUTION (Curated by After Party Collective, New York 2021), Entre Sures (Co-curated with Eli Moon, Mexico City, 2021), and Saavdhaan: The Regimes of Truth (New Delhi, 2018). Their art writing has appeared in NO NIIN, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Critical Collective, Mezosfera, ifa Biennale stories, and other platforms.