FLUSH #8: Frontera Amarilla
Faced with the tedium of patients who, time and again, return to receive a treatment that remains perpetual; with the side effects endured by some people living with HIV in Latin America due to low-cost medication, the privileges and restrictions in access, the logic of the pharmaceutical market, or the difficulties of migrating with HIV—Los Amarillos (a self-organized artistic collective from Colombia) propose and construct images that embody the demand, the desire, and the sacredness of bodies living with the virus.
The relationship with it becomes language and affective resistance—intimate yet collective, poetic proclamations that invite us to think of HIV not as an illness, but as a political symptom.
It’s about diagnosing utopias, to keep dreaming of a moving revolution. This room does not heal: it burns.
Colectivo Los Amarillos has carried out exhibitions, research, performances, and creative writing laboratories during the autumn of this year in several European cities as part of Frontera Amarilla, and now arrives in Amsterdam to open a space for denunciation, memory, and the celebration of dissident bodies.
Programme
Opening FLUSH #8: FRONTERA AMARILLA (at W139)
— Saturday 8 November, 19:00-22:00
Workshop with Colective Los Amarillos
— Monday 10 November, 18:30-20:30
Artist talk with Colective Los Amarillos (at Rietveld Academie)
— Thursday 13 November, 17:00-19:00
Production: Espacio Estamos Bien
Graphic design: Dun Lee
Text: Lou Vives
With the support of Monstrous Futurities, Romany Dear, and Kyle Tryhorn.
FLUSH is a flourishing collaboration between Espacio Estamos Bien and W139, located in the toilets of W139. FLUSH operates as a flexible form of organizing and creating, enabling various types of collaboration. FLUSH aims to foster inter-local relationships, viewing Amsterdam as a hub for facilitating diverse interactions and building connections that bridge distances. Joyful, friendly and decentralized connections extend beyond the Amsterdam art scene.
