LOVE, SIMEON
A new motion-picture performance
Written and directed by Anuj Larvaidya
March 10, 3:30pm
Closing weekend of CRIP’D ECOLOGIES exhibition
ROOT DIVISION
1131 Mission St
San Francisco
Love, Simeon is a motion-picture performance that conjures a portal to Simeon – a rhesus macaque in a primate testing facility. As an ecosexual living with HIV, my entry point into this dense knot centers the story of those simians who have been laboring to find a prevention/cure for this deadly virus. In cinematic dreams and séances, Simeon tells the story of SHIV – a chimeric construct created in a laboratory, so that a panacea might be found.
