HYPERALLERGIC: A Stirring Tribute Honors Voices Lost and Living with HIV/AIDS

Emphasizing the human toll of the AIDs crisis sits at the heart of Hear Me, a new sound installation that will debut on December 1 at the New York City AIDS Memorial. Every night at 7pm, the Greenwich Village monument will broadcast poetry, speeches, music, and readings of historical texts related to the epidemic, putting voices to dizzying and infuriating statistics. Likewise, each morning at 10am, another recording — featuring the names of over 2,000 New Yorkers who have died of AIDS-related illnesses — will play, read by members of What Would an HIV Doula Do?, a collective of friends, caregivers, activists, and long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS.