THE SPACE BETWEEN

THE SPACE BETWEEN 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 embody artist film's ability to convey a range of views by using photography, archival material and sound.

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 memory, archives, representation/abstraction, time and movement.

Since 2019, THE SPACE BETWEEN has toured to some of the most exciting contemporary galleries and festivals.

Past exhibitions can be seen here.

Artworks in the programme:

Compilation: 49 minutes 22 seconds

• Ursula Mayer, The Crystal Gaze, 2007, 8 minutes
• Noor Afshan Mirza (fka Karen Mirza) & Brad Butler, The Space Between, 2005, 12 minutes
• The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling, 2012, 21 minutes, 42 seconds
• Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, 7 minutes, 40 seconds

Installations: Projections and Large-scale Installations

• Duncan Campbell, Fall Burns Malone Fiddles, 2004, 33 minutes
• Douglas Gordon, 10 ms-1, 1994, 10 minutes, 5 seconds
• Christina Mackie, FOO, 1994, 10mins
• Haroon Mirza, Taka Tak, 2008, 7 minutes, 11 seconds (loop)
• Anne Tallentire, Drift, 2002-2017, durations from 23 seconds to 5 minutes
• Thomson & Craighead, Decorative Newsfeeds, 2004, durations variable

The themes covered include: memory, archives, representation/abstraction, time and movement

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