Announcing ‘Ka Mua Ka Muri - Walking Backwards Into the Future’

LUX Scotland is delighted to announce a new collaboration with CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image made possible by the new British Council Connections Through Culture grants.

‘Ka Mua Ka Muri – Walking Backwards Into the Future’ will take place in Spring 2025, and explores artistic strategies for sustainable futures through moving image practice. Through a series of film screenings and online conversations, the project connects artists from Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland to examine how contemporary moving image technologies activate ancestral knowledge, sustain connections to land and home amid displacement, and inspire new models of activism and resilience. It reconsiders historical gestures of resistance to address today’s political and social challenges.

Further details of the programme will be announced in the coming months, and we look forward to welcoming audiences in Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as online participants around the world, to this exciting new series.

Founded in 2012, CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image is a non-profit arts agency that supports artists working in the moving image based in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Connections Through Culture programme is designed to nurture fresh cultural partnerships between the UK and countries in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. These grants are instrumental in supporting new ideas and collaborations from artists and cultural organisations at any stage of development. The grants support new connections, exchanges, and collaborations.

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. The British Council support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. The British Council do this through their work in arts and culture, education and the English language, working with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries.