WE ARE HERE

Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

In a series of five artist film programmes, WE ARE HERE

investigates how some of the UK’s most outstanding emerging
and established contemporary artists disrupt old narratives and
encourage new global discussions on topics such as climate
change, national identity, marginality, intimacy, community and
the future of the city.

Ayo Akingbade, Tower XYZ, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
5 Flexible Programmes Each With
• 1 core compilation and
• 4-6 accompanying installations

Display and Co-curatorial Options

• 1 core compilation
• 1 core compilation + associated installations
• 1 core compilation + associated installations +
local artworks

Suitable for
• Online screening (limited time only)
• Galleries and Museums
• Black-box / cinema screening / theatre-style
facilities

Programmes and Themes

• OLD WORLD ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS Uriel Orlow, Muthi, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
National identity, racial and cultural histories,
internationalism, local vs. global

• SONGS FROM A FORGOTTEN PAST

Marginality and its representation, community,
storytelling, worldbuilding, reframing histories

• RADICAL INTIMACIES
Queerness, feminist perspectives, non-normative
gender and sexuality, desire, intimacy

• FUTURE ECOLOGIES
Climate change, the environment, cosmology,
colonisation and extractive industries, urban
futures and sustainability

• THE SPACE BETWEEN

Memory, archives, representation/abstraction, time
and movement

Artists Include
• Charlotte Prodger (2018 Turner Prize winner)
• Rachel Maclean (represented Scotland at the
Venice Art Biennale, 2017)
• Jeremy Deller (represented UK at the Venice Art
Biennale, 2013)

Cost
• Please contact us for details
Kenny Macleod, Twin Sisters, 1998. Courtesy of the artist

WE ARE HERE is co-curated by Tendai John Mutambu

and British Council in collaboration with LUX, an
international arts agency that supports and promotes
artists’ moving image practices.

For more information contact:

visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
Rehana Zaman, I, I, I, I and I, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
WE ARE HERE
Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

Luke Fowler, ENCEINDRE, 2018 Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

OLD WORLD ORDER /
NEW WORLD ORDERS
Compilation Running Time:
65 minutes, 49 seconds
Compilation Works:
• Callum Hill, Crowtrap, 2018, 15 minutes (LUX)
• Rosalind Nashashibi, The States of Things,
2000, 3 minutes, 18 seconds (British Council)
• Luke Fowler, ENCEINDRE, 2018, 20 minutes, 41
seconds (LUX)
• Morgan Quaintance, Another Decade, 2018, 26
minutes and 50 seconds (LUX)
Installations:
Please see our programme website here for a full
list of artists with installations.
Panel Discussions
To be centered on the programme’s themes and
feature a UK creative. British Council happy to
provide assistance to shape content if needed.
Ayo Akingbade, Tower XYZ, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
With new constituencies forming, others
renewed, and boundaries being re-drawn,
urgent questions surrounding belonging
and identity loom over our communities
and institutions. What, then, can history
teach us about the strength and fragility of
collectivity, nationhood, and internationalism?
This question is explored in OLD WORLD
ORDER / NEW WORLD ORDERS.
The programme contains a curated
compilation of four works, which for a limited
period during the global lockdown can be
screened to audiences online accompanied
with a panel discussion including one of the
programme’s UK creatives.
Physical display of the compilation and select
associated installations is also still available.
For more information contact:
visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
WE ARE HERE
Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

Rehana Zaman, I, I, I, I and I, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and LUX


SONGS FROM A
FORGOTTEN PAST
Compilation Running Time:
Running time 72 minutes, 41 seconds
Compilation Works:
• Ayo Akingbade, Street 66, 2018, 13 minutes
(LUX)
• Duncan Campbell, Arbeit, 2011, 39 minutes
(LUX)
• Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007, 20
minutes, 41 seconds (British Council)
Installations:
Please see our programme website here for a full
list of artists with installations.
Panel Discussions
To be centered on the programme’s themes and
feature a UK creative. British Council happy to
provide assistance to shape content if needed.
Ayo Akingbade, Street 66, 2018
How can we see the world from the
perspective of the marginalised and stand
by them in solidarity? Can marginalisation be
undermined by reframing its representations?
The works in SONGS FROM A FORGOTTEN
PAST move beyond idealisation and
romanticisation. Instead, they point towards
the potential to write new narratives that
critically recast old images, perspectives
and tools of analysis.
The programme contains a curated
compilation of three works, which for a limited
period during the global lockdown can be
screened to audiences online accompanied
with a panel discussion including one of the
programme’s UK creatives.
Physical display of the compilation and select
associated installations is also still available.
For more information contact:
visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
WE ARE HERE
Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

Kenny Macleod, Twin Sisters, 1998. Courtesy of the artist

 Rehana Zaman, Sharla, Shabana Sojourner Selena, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
RADICAL
INTIMACIES
Compilation Running Time:
59 minutes, 07 seconds
Compilation Works:
• Beatrice Gibson, I hope I’m Loud When I’m
Dead, 2018, 20 minutes (LUX)
• Rehana Zaman, Sharla Shabana Sojourner
Selena, 2016, 22 minutes, 14 seconds (LUX)
• Stephen Sutcliffe, Casting Through and
Scenes from Radcliffe, 2017, 16 minutes, 53
seconds (LUX)
Installations:
Please see our programme website here for a full
list of artists with installations.
Panel Discussions
To be centered on the programme’s themes and
feature a UK creative. British Council happy to
provide assistance to shape content if needed.
The artists in RADICAL INTIMACIES investigate
the role of gender and sexual identities in a
social, political, and cultural moment that has
seen the momentous erosion of hard-won
rights and the value of freely expressing
difference. Presented in the programme are
various intergenerational perspectives that
affirm lives lived outside the norm and
celebrate all that has been made possible by
those before us.
The programme contains a curated
compilation of three works, which for a limited
period during the global lockdown can be
screened to audiences online accompanied
with a panel discussion including one of the
programme’s UK creatives.
Physical display of the compilation and select
associated installations is also still available.
For more information contact:
visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
WE ARE HERE
Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

Gareth Jones, New City, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and MK Gallery, UK

FUTURE
ECOLOGIES
Compilation:
Running time 67 minutes, 03 seconds
Compilation Works:
• Uriel Orlow, Muthi, 2016, 11 minutes, 23
seconds (LUX)
• Louis Henderson, All That is Solid, 2014 15
minutes, 40 seconds (LUX)
• Charlotte Prodger, LHB, 2017, 20 minutes
(LUX)
• Ben Rivers, Urth, 2016, 20 minutes (LUX)
Installations:
Please see our programme website here for a full
list of artists with installations.
Panel Discussions
To be centered on the programme’s themes and
feature a UK creative. British Council happy to
provide assistance to shape content if needed.
Uriel Orlow, Muthi, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
The line between yesterday’s utopias and
tomorrow’s dystopias is a fine one; history’s
mythic ideal has given way to our present
predicament in the current geological age
where humanity is the greatest environmental
influence. Yet old myths persist in new
technologically smarter guises. It is clear by
now that to address the future, society must
attend to the environment.
The programme contains a curated
compilation of three works, which for a limited
period during the global lockdown can be
screened to audiences online accompanied
with a panel discussion including one of the
programme’s UK creatives.
Physical display of the compilation and select
associated installations is also still available.
For more information contact:
visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
WE ARE HERE
Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX

Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and LUX
 The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and LUX

THE SPACE Artists consider the medium

of film in THE SPACE BETWEEN in works that
BETWEEN show moving image’s ability to convey a
range of artistic views through photography,
archival material and sound.

The programme contains a curated

compilation of four works, which for a limited
Compilation Running Time:
Running time 49 minutes, 22 seconds period during the global lockdown can be
screened to audiences online accompanied
Compilation Works:
with a panel discussion including one of the
• Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007, 8 programme’s UK creatives.
minutes (LUX)
• Noor Afshan Mirza (fka Karen Mirza) & Brad
Butler, The Space Between, 2005, 12 minutes Physical display of the compilation and select
(LUX) associated installations is also still available.
• The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling,
2012, 21 minutes, 42 seconds (LUX) For more information contact:
• Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953,
2013, 7 minutes, 40 seconds (LUX)
visual.arts@britishcouncil.org

Installations:
Please see our programme website here for a full
list of artists with installations.

Panel Discussions
To be centered on the programme’s themes and
feature a UK creative. British Council happy to
provide assistance to shape content if needed.