NEW YORK TIMES: Jenny Holzer Creates Mobile Exhibition for World AIDS Day

Written By Peter Freeby

On the first day of December, a fleet of trucks illuminating the words of activists, poets, artists, educators and people living with H.I.V. and AIDS will travel through the city, competing with the billboards, neon and other distractions, in a mobile art exhibition for World AIDS Day.

The interactive experience, on LED screens, was created by the artist Jenny Holzer in collaboration with the New York City AIDS Memorial as part of “#LightTheFight,” a ceremony and performance that starts at dusk at the AIDS Memorial park in the West Village. The five trucks will begin their journey there.

“It’s crucial to maintain awareness that the AIDS epidemic is live, in New York and around the world,” Ms. Holzer said in a statement. “The messages on the trucks’ screens, contributed by feeling people, could comfort those affected by AIDS and reignite fires in bellies to end AIDS forever.”

Peter Freeby

I design and build books, periodicals, brand materials, websites and marketing for a range of artists, non profits and educational programs including Elizabeth Murray, Jack Tworkov, Edith Schloss, Janice Biala, Joan Witek, George McNeil, Judy Dolnick, Jordan Eagles, John Silvis, Diane Von Furstenberg, The Generations Project, The Koch Institute, The McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute and the Dow Jones News Fund.

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