Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
Read Antosh Wojcik’s poetic response to Sean Dower’s featured work on FVU Watch, Automaton. Antosh’s newly developed text draws on the visual and mechanical choreography performed by the automated rig as it documents musician Steve Noble’s epic performance.
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Emily LaBarge
Originally commissioned in response to Webb-Ellis's For The First Baby Born in Space, writer Emily LaBarge expands on the work’s revelatory nature — highlighting the ordinary and spectacular aspects of our present life on earth and how we might convey this to our extraterrestrial counterparts in the future.
Rosa Tyhurst
Read Rosa Tyhurst’s newly developed text in response to Foxfire Eins (2000), currently featuring on FVU Watch. Rosa reflects on Jayne Parker’s quartet of musical interventions in the present moment — exploring the power of non-verbal communication, gesture and dance.
Jinan Coulter
Read Jinan Coulter’s newly commissioned essay produced in response to our latest #FVUWatch feature Aphonia (2024) by Sophie Hoyle. Jinan takes the nuance of speech as a starting point to question broader themes of language and agency explored within the work.
Adam Bobbette
Read Adam Bobbette's essay examining the granular connections explored through Gayle Chong Kwan's A Pocket Full of Sand — bringing forth the historical and colonial ties between sugar and sand, and the Isle of Wight and Mauritius.
Martin Herbert
Read a newly developed text by writer and critic Martin Herbert, responding to the future-facing conspiracies of Daniel Cockburn’s recent FVU Commission Ahead of the Curve.