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Writing
Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
A Rustle in the Trees
Read a new text by Steven Bode reflecting on A Forest Tale by Ruth Maclennan two years on—now contextualised in the wake of Russia’s developing authoritarian regime and the war in Ukraine.
Dreaming Rivers
Leena Habiballa
Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2023 Leena Habiballa considers the physical reworking of a pioneering film’s 16mm print.
Queer Territories/Lesbian Lenses
Aislinn Evans
Awardee of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2023 Aislinn Evans critically examines a lesbian relation to histories of the land and landscape cinema.
Excavating the Body
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
Awardee of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2023 Natasha Thembiso Ruwona explores Ashanti Harris’s Black Gold.
What we’ll always have is something we lost
Reman Sadani
Artist Reman Sadani expands on themes of grief, loss and memory presented within Myriam Rey's 2023 FVU commission absent landscapes.
Interludes: 20 Years Later
Mimi Howard
Writer and academic Mimi Howard considers Anne Bjerge Hansen’s Interludes against the ceaseless flow of video images in the present and the slower televisual rhythms of the past.
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No Ordinary Summer
Steven Bode
Steven Bode looks back at Mikhail Karikis’ No Ordinary Protest through the discoloured lens of the extraordinary events of the summer of 2023.
No Ordinary Protest – 2018 exhibition text
Cathy Lane
Commissioned for the initial 2018 exhibition of Mikhail Karikis' No Ordinary Protest, artist and academic Cathy Lane considers the work in light of Karikis' broader artistic practice.
The Top Man in Paris
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone
Published in the booklet accompanying the 1997 Passagen CD-ROM, the artists Ellard and Johnstone wend the creative and literary pathways within their work.
In Unison
Steven Bode
Steven Bode tunes into the lingering resonances of Marcus Coates’ work, and how its ecological message reverberates in the present.
Clearing the Air
Steven Bode
Steven Bode revisits Shona Illingworth’s Balnakiel in the light of her recent major work, Topologies of Air.
Portrait of the Artist as a Dust Wrangler
Chris Darke
To accompany the remastered release of Adam Chodzko's Plan for a Spell, we shake off the dust from Chris Darke’s essay from the 2002 catalogue for the work, Plans and Spells.
View scans of the original publication below. You can purchase a copy of Plans and Spells here.
Robert Beavers
Siavash Minoukadeh
Awardee of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2022 Siavash Minoukadeh explores the power of oblique suggestion in queer cinema.
Going on a Bear Hunt
Dan Guthrie
Awardee of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2022 Dan Guthrie tries to imagine the experience of Steve McQueen's elusive artwork Bear.
I Am a Photograph
Evelyn Wh-ell
Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2022 Evelyn Wh-ell examines two French trans icons’ focus on image as surface.
In Defence of the Small Screen
Laura Bivolaru
Winner of the Michael O'Pray Prize 2022 Laura Bivolaru presents an argument for viewing the moving image while moving.
Reprise: After Bani Abidi’s ‘The Song’
Kamila Shamsie
In this specially commissioned text to accompany The Song, novelist Kamila Shamsie picks up the bitter-sweet refrain of the film and visits its protagonist some years into the future.