For Day With(out) Art 2025, Visual AIDS presents Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos centering the experiences of drug users and harm reduction as theyintersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Commissioned artists from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam explore the complexity of drug use across public and private spaces. Some works document visible worlds, such as a harm reduction program in a Berlin park or a night out during Rio’s Carnival, while others turn inward to hidden spaces of safety, including bedrooms, underground clinics, andmoments of intimacy.
The program speaks to both the physical locations where harm reduction is practiced and a wider shift toward centering drug users as authors of their own stories. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people where they are without judgment, Meet Us Where We’re At affirms the full reality of drug use, including its pleasures, risks,and role in how people survive, care, and connect, amplifying drug users as essential participants in the global HIV response.
Meet Us Where We're At Videos:
Voices of Resilience Kenneth Idongesit Usoro
The passion according to G.H.B Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto
Ghost in the Park Camila Flores-Fernández
The Sister’s Journey Hoàng Thái Anh
Realce (Highlight) Camilo Tapia Flores
¿Por qué tanto dolor? (Why so much pain?) José Luis Cortés
