From the Street to the World: LUVA Gallery podcast takeover!

In this episode the LUVA team discuss the work of artist Naz Smouna, titled ‘Merged Reality’. Naz is finishing a BA Fine Art degree at Central Saint Martins and has spent the past months exploring systems of social control and surveillance through their practice. “More recently combining my research of consumerist mechanisms in public and private spheres, with the intrinsic relationship with digital technologies. Having spent most of the year confined to the house, my practice has fluctuated around different frames of perspective and reality existing within the billboard, the window and the screen.” Naz’s full video work is available to watch on YouTube through this link: https://youtu.be/Pi-dO-PYAWg

From LUVA Gallery: "In this episode we share and discuss the work of Lydia Poole, a contemporary artist from Yorkshire and a current DPS student at Central Saint Martins. For the past year Lydia has been a member of the LUVA Gallery team. The video work discussed in the podcast, is described as ‘A four-part woven narrative of the conflict between mind and the sublime; the internal and the external. Referencing fictional tragedies and Romanticised fables of drownings to map volatile exchanges between bodies of water and our bodies (of water)’. The work is available to view on our Instagram page luva_gallery An extract from the video: The willow, the call, avoid. The call, the voice, the song bind. Your wrists tether your ankles (clothes spread wide heavy) with drink sucking, thirstily, fantastic, garlands sinking sinking saturate soak swamp pulling. at limbs weighing, binding - anoint your ears - binding succumb transform descend to the un, con, scious, the unknown uncertainty. Incapable of your own distress, succumb. Inundate sub, merge abundance deluge immerse an, inun, dation an, inha, lation an, aspi, ration no, respi, ration an, annihi, lation engulfing mortality suffocating drown ov erbur den besiege swamp swamp surge murky depths crap and silt pond weed deeper. Deeper pack the lungs cram them torrent through the cavities glutton for space greedy for air cold bloated swollen filled - sunk."

This episode explores the work ‘Should we fish it out/casting the sea’ by LDVA members Zoe Horne and artist Imogen Lee. The piece was made during a DPS residency in Cyprus. “Zoe’s practice follows the leaky threshold of inside and outside. In this journey to the sea, the process of casting collages together the bodies of Zoe Horne, Imogen Lee and the sea. Excavating the casts from the sand reveals creatures which could function as architectural models, sea monsters or alien landscapes. Stripping the audio from the video uncovers echoes of a fragmented conversation between these bodies” Listen to the work with us and see what the LDVA team have to say.

Second episode in the LUVA gallery take-over of the DPS Podcast; This episode is a crit like discussion of a sound piece created by artist Fran Hayes, titled 'Sausage Porridge'. The discussion is a recording from a zoom meeting where Fran shared the work with the LUVA team. About Fran Hayes: “ Sausage Porridge is a brain fart. An accumulation of thoughts and feelings from both personal and wider reflections over the pandemic. I find writing these texts a productive way to process information and am often intrigued myself by what comes out using the act of cooking as a catalyst I begin to dissect the rhythms of my world” - Fran Hayes.

For Spring 2021 London based artist run LUVA Gallery, is doing a takeover of the DPS CSM Podcast. LUVA / LDVA Currently working as LDVA LOCK DOWN VISUAL ART [LUVA] A pop-up gallery dedicated to exhibiting diverse contemporary UK artists organised collectively luvagallery.com Instagram: luva_gallery Now that LUVA is working under our new facet; LDVA ( lockdown visual art). We understand the importance of sharing and connecting in multiple different accessible ways. We have been having fun exploring the potential of audio. Over the past few months, Luva radio has been formed; we’ve teamed up with UAL, DPS, Central saint martins to bring to you our very own podcast. - Framed as a crit, we explore each other’s work as well as discussing issues that artists are currently facing. i.e the impact that lockdown has had on practice. Different combinations of people are featured on the episodes so look forward to hearing ideas from a range of our artists and creatives. - #team #art #gallery #luvagallery #london #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #artistrunspace #eastlondon #multimediaart #process #diyspace #diyculture #UAL #DPS #onlineart #audioart #onlinegallery #podcast