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Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At
For Day With(out) Art 2025, Visual AIDS announces Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Commissioned videos by artists in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam journey across a range of spaces revealing the complexity of drug use. Several videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found: bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers.
Meet Us Where We’re At speaks not only to the variety of physical locations where contemporary harm reduction is practiced, but also to a broader shift: centering drug users as authors of their own experiences. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people at their personal reality without judgment, the program affirms the full context of drug use—its pleasures, its risks, and its role in how people survive, care, and connect.
Harm reduction has long been central to the AIDS movement through practices like needle exchange and safe injection sites, and people who use drugs have been affected by HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. This program brings their perspectives to the forefront, amplifying the voices of drug users as storytellers, cultural producers, and essential participants in the global response to HIV.
Meet Us Where We’re At will feature newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:
Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria)
Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam)
Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal)
Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil)
Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany)
José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico)
The artists in this program were selected by a jury of artists/community workers including Eva Dewa Masyitha, Heather Edney, charles ryan long, and Leo Herrera.
The hour-long video program will premiere on December 1, 2025, World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art in Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC with a potluck and discussion led by Peter Stebbins at the David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House at Walbrdige, 3229 Walbridge PL, NW with support from The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation.
