FUTURE ECOLOGIES

FUTURE ECOLOGIES is an artist film programme curated by Tendai John Mutambu for British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices, which presents incisive views about our environment, urban futures, climate change and sustainability.

In the programme some of the UK’s most outstanding emerging and established artists disrupt old narratives and encourage new global discussions on topics such as climate change, cosmology, colonisation and extractive industries, urban futures and sustainability.

Since 2019, FUTURE ECOLOGIES has toured to some of the most exciting contemporary galleries, exhibited alongside international artists and strong public programming.

Past exhibitions can be seen here.

Artworks in the programme:

Compilation: 67 minutes 03 seconds

• Uriel Orlow, Muthi, 2016, 11 minutes, 23 seconds
• Louis Henderson, All That is Solid, 2014, 15 minutes, 40 seconds
• Charlotte Prodger, LHB, 2017, 20 minutes
• Ben Rivers, Urth, 2016, 20 minutes

Installations: Projections and Large-scale Installations

• Gareth Jones, New City, 2011, 17 minutes, 5 seconds
• Lawrence Lek, Play Station TM, 2017, 8 minutes
• Bedwyr Williams, The Starry Messenger, 2013, 17 minutes, 43 second
• Jane and Louise Wilson, Monument (Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee), 2003, 5 minutes, 40 seconds
• Elizabeth Price, USER GROUP DISCO, 2009, 15 minutes

The themes covered include: climate change, cosmology, colonisation and extractive industries, urban futures and sustainability

For a limited time we are pleased to offer partners the opportunity to share the very best of contemporary moving image in FUTURE ECOLOGIES with audiences straight to their homes, through an online screening event of the compilation followed by a live panel discussion with one of the programme’s UK creatives. The programme is of course also still available for physical display.

Please get in touch to find out more about how to show the programme and ideas for public programme.

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FUTURE ECOLOGIES is part of WE ARE HERE: Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX – a series of five artists’ film programmes curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices.

Each programme is curated around a theme: national identity, marginality, intimacy, the future and the archive. You can view the other programmes here.

WE ARE HERE interrogates how outstanding emerging and established British or UK-based contemporary artists are influenced by these themes and how they explore them through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction.