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Simon Pope, Memory Marathon (2010)

Ahead of the opening of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, we’re delighted to highlight Simon Pope’s 2010 FVU-commissioned film Memory Marathon on FVU Watch. Memory Marathon is an 80-minute film of a large-scale participative event in which the artist walked a specially planned 26-mile marathon route through the five London boroughs that hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Over a hundred people walked in turn alongside the artist, each recounting their own Olympic memory in a 'recall relay'. Continuing a series of trademark walking and memory projects, Memory Marathon is a unique collective undertaking that celebrates the enduring importance of personal memories.

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 HERE. A poignant record of the emotional impact that the universally celebrated event has on its local and global communities, Memory Marathon provides a moving testimonial to sport and the place it holds in people’s lives.

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Conceived and produced by Film and Video Umbrella. Commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and funded by the London Development Agency and Arts Council England.

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