For Day With(out) Art 2025, Visual AIDS presents 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.
Video by: Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil)*, Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico), Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal)*
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.
*La visione dei cortometraggi di Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal) e Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil) è vietata a un pubblico minorenne
In occasione dell’evento del 1° dicembre per il WOLD AIDS DAY il Centro Pecci sarà aperto straordinariamente di lunedì con i seguenti orari: 10:00 – 19:00
