We are Here: Artists鈥 Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX is a series of moving image programmes presented as compilations and installations of artist films, created by some of UK鈥檚 most outstanding contemporary emerging and established artists.
Artspace Aotearoa presents four compilations from the series to screen for their summer cinema programme. The artists featured use forms of biography, documentary, poetry and fiction as strategies to provoke new perspectives and discourse around issues of memory, national identity, marginality and intimacy. WE are Here was curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council, the UK鈥檚 international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists' moving image practices. Each of the four artist film compilations screen for either two or three weeks, during which each will interrogate a specific theme.