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Our projects are often accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here, alongside award winning texts produced for FVU's Michael O'Pray writing prize.
In Between
Celestine Fraser reflects on a journey through isolation, recovery, intimacy and relapse before arriving at the unexpected forms of connection and meaning that emerge from living ‘in between’.
shot to pieces – for Morisha
Alice Hattrick examines how Sideweighs and Backwords uses glitches, malapropisms, fragmented imagery, and experimental filmmaking to reflect experiences of memory, migration, disability, and mental illness.
Reinforcements
Rachael Rakes examines how visual technologies have never been neutral tools for revealing truth, but have instead been shaped by systems of power that determine what counts as evidence and reality.
THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY: Risk, Mediation, and the Glass of History
Adnan Madani's text examines a world saturated with mediated images of violence, revealing how perception is shaped by power and spectacle.
“You are live in the archive, please do not swear!”
Jaye Hudson explores how queer and trans artists in the ’90s and early 2000s used low-budget media to challenge mainstream misrepresentation, often without institutional backing.
Giants’ Anatomy
Gary Zhexi Zhang situates Giants' Anatomy as a near-future reflection on dismantling industry, mourning labour, and turning industrial history into spectacle and museum culture.