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Lucy Beech
Me and Mine
We're excited to be presenting Lucy Beech’s 2015 FVU-commissioned work Me and Mine on FVU Watch this month. The business...
Kyla Harris and Lou Macnamara
It's Personal
It's Personal documents Kyla's experience of care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Created to evoke a hybrid-documentary/reality TV challenge, Kyla's 24-hour...
Simon Pope
Memory Marathon
Ahead of the opening of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, we’re delighted to highlight Simon Pope’s 201...Read
When will we need you
Writer Naomi Pearce reflects on themes of Death, the female archetype, and ideas of community in Lucy Beech's Me and Mine (2015).
The light plane over The Reflecting Pool
Steven Bode remembers the late Bill Viola through a rumination on his iconic The Reflecting Pool, one of the highlights of the FVU showcase of the artist’s work, ‘A Thoughtful Gaze’, from 1988.
Another time. A different event.
Read author Sukhdev Sandhu's original text commissioned for Memory Marathon, reflecting on the impact of recollecting significant cultural events and the acoustic framework of memory
Memories of Memory Marathon
Read a newly developed text by FVU’s Associate Director Steven Bode reflecting on the production and timely context of Simon Pope’s Memory Marathon — a poignant record of the emotional impact that the universally celebrated event has on its local and global communities.
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