Homotopia; Day Without Art 2025 - Meet Us Where We're At

For Day With(out) Art 2025, Visual AIDS presents Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos centring the experiences of drug users and harm reduction as they intersect 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, and moments of intimacy.

The program speaks to both the physical locations where harm reduction is practiced and a wider shift toward centring drug users as authors of their own stories. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people where they are without judgement, Meet Us Where We’re At affirms the full reality of drug use, including its pleasures, risks,and…