Day With(out) Art 2026: seeds in a dying colony
Presented in collaboration with Cinéseries
Free for all audiences with ticket
For Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2026, Cinéseries presents seeds in a dying colony, a program of four videos that explore the intersections of colonialism and HIV.
Film/Video Theater
The Wexner Center for the Arts and Cinéseries is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2026 by presenting seeds in a dying colony, a program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic. Across fractured histories and landscapes marked by extraction, the works trace how systems of power shape the body, memory, and experiences of care.
seeds in a dying colony will feature four newly commissioned short videos by artists from across the world: Edgar Hudson (Tanzania), Bruna Kury and Matheus Mello (Brazil/Spain), Sido Lansari (Morocco/France), and Micaela Cyrino (Brazil).
The program responds to a moment marked by deepening neocolonialism and mass desensitization to violent, preventable death, including recent spikes in HIV cases and deaths. Driven by cuts to international aid programs like US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), this resurgence reveals how access to care remains shaped by broader systems of US and Western power that determine whose lives are protected and whose deaths are allowed to pass in silence. (program approx. 90 mins., DCP)
Program lineup
There is an Elephant in the Room (Edgar Hudson, 2026)
Viral Borders: The Geopolitics of a Pandemic (Bruna Kury and Matheus Mello, 2026)
Forevermore (Sido Lansari, 2026)
How to project your voice without causing an earthquake (Micaela Cyrino, 2026)
About the series
In the words of Cinéseries’ members: Cinéseries is a student-led group that organizes monthly screenings in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts. We aim to offer a space for students and the community to engage with film and expanded cinema from makers of a variety of backgrounds. We aspire to create an environment conducive to critical engagement by inviting filmmakers to showcase work that takes risks, challenges norms, and opens a conversation by devoting to a wide range of artist-centered and independent media.