RADICAL INTIMACIES

RADICAL INTIMACIES 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 works that celebrate diverse identities, sexualities and gender from intergenerational perspectives.

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 queerness, feminist perspectives, non-normative gender and sexuality, gender-as-performance, desire, intimacy.

Since 2019, RADICAL INTIMACIES 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: 59 minutes, 07 seconds

• Beatrice Gibson, I hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018, 20 minutes
• Rehana Zaman, Sharla Shabana Sojourner Selena, 2016, 22 minutes, 14 seconds
• Stephen Sutcliffe, Casting Through and Scenes from Radcliffe, 2017, 16 minutes, 53 seconds

Installations: Projections and Large-scale Installations

• Kenny Macleod, Twin Sisters, 1998, 4 minutes (British Council)
• Stuart Marshall, Journal of the Plague Year, 1984, 40 minutes, 32 seconds
• Katharine Meynell, Hat & Wig, 2018, 10 minutes
• Charlotte Prodger, BRIDGIT, 2016, 32 minutes
• Margaret Salmon, Mm, 2017, 30 minutes
• Gillian Wearing, Boytime, 1996, 56 minutes (British Council)

The themes covered include: queerness, feminist perspectives, non-normative gender and sexuality, gender-as-performance, desire, intimacy

For a limited time we are pleased to offer partners the opportunity to share the very best of contemporary moving image in RADICAL INTIMACIES 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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RADICAL INTIMACIES 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.