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2026 Open Call Theme : Water 🌊

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Our latest @subtleradio show is out NOW💥💥💥

If you missed it live, then listen back through the link in our bio.

Everything from baile to tech house and jersey is in this one, enjoy the spoilers 😈 by @fourthfloor__

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Today we launch our monthly residency on @subtleradio 💥💥💥

Hosted by @strae.sound & @ethannottino we’ll bring the latest bangers from around the world. From Baile Funk to Bouyon, Breaks, Jersey and everything in between.

Expect special appearances from the FF family. Catch you on the fourth Tuesday of every month from midday.

🎧🎧🎧 by @fourthfloor__

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Claudia Neuschulz explores what our relationship with water reveals about attention and creativity, asking how a culture of measurement, productivity and optimisation has changed the way we relate to the world around us.

You can read this piece in Society on the site. Link in bio.

Claudia is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford, working on the social psychology of water quality. She also works for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in Water Finance, and founded Claudiclouds, where she writes about water, Attention, and Play. by @fourthfloor__

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In Ocean Birthright, Mira Gupta explores water as a space of memory, politics and healing, tracing the intersections of marine ecology, colonialism and surf culture through Black and Indigenous histories. Head to Sport on the site to read this piece.

Mira also explores water as a space of love, memory, transformation, and spirituality in her two poems: The Coast & Divine Water. Read excerpts above, and then head to Arts on the site to read the full thing. Link in bio. by @fourthfloor__

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In this series of poems, Tukur Ridwan reflects on water as a force of spirituality, transformation and emotional survival.

The poems draw on Yoruba cosmology and marine imagery to explore rebirth, longing, ritual and the intimate power of the sea.

Head to Arts on the site to read in full. Link in bio
Head to Water on the site to read more. by @fourthfloor__

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Collage artist Steve Timms combines surreal, water-inspired imagery with reflections on swimming, solitude and emotional escape.

Steve draws on film, literature and personal memory to explore immersion as a fantasy of renewal and reinvention.

Head to Water on the site to read more. by @fourthfloor__

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In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool. Their families were told nothing. Hester Yang’s The Undesirables is the work that refuses to let that silence stand.

You can read this feature on our website, as part of the Open Call on Water. Link in bio.

Hester is an artist-researcher based in London and Beijing. Her hybrid practice explores histories at the margins of visibility, working across sound, moving image, and archival interventions. by @fourthfloor__

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Northfield Brook is a small stream running through Oxford that quietly bridges one of England’s starkest socio-economic divides.

Multimedia artist Rawz traces the brook’s path through neglected housing estates and affluent neighbourhoods, reflecting on class, memory and belonging in a city shaped by inequality.

Blending personal narrative, sound art and poetry, the piece considers water as both a physical boundary and a living archive of community and survival.

Head to Water on the site to read more. by @fourthfloor__

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2 months ago

Ayodeji Ayodele presents Omi L’eko, translating to “the water of Lagos.” This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in the city.

In Lagos, water is never passive. It supports daily life, fuels creativity, and exposes deep social and environmental inequalities.

Drawing from Yoruba understandings of water as spiritual and historical, the lagoon becomes both a lifeline and a witness. It holds stories of trade, migration, resilience, and neglect. Here, water is political. It reflects who adapts, who is protected, and who is left vulnerable.

Omi L’eko invites viewers to see water not as background, but as an active presence shaping culture, creativity, and the rhythm of life in Lagos.

You can read more in the Water section on the site. Link in bio. by @fourthfloor__

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Tainted Waters is a photo series by Prince El-sha Martey documenting life along Ghana’s polluted rivers, lagoons and coastlines.

As part of Fourth Floor’s open call on water, the series traces how contamination reshapes health, work, ritual and everyday life, while revealing the quiet resilience of communities adapting to environmental harm.

Martey captures both the lasting impact of pollution and the ongoing efforts to restore balance between people, place and water.

Head over to Water on the site to read more. Link in bio.

Prince El-sha Martey is a Ghanaian photographer and visual storyteller whose work explores everyday life, memory, and place within Accra’s urban landscape. As a contributor to Agbawe Archives, his photography documents neighborhoods, people, and overlooked moments, preserving visual narratives that exist between history and the present. Through a documentary - yet intimate - approach, his images reflect themes of resilience, environment, and human connection, offering quiet observations of life shaped by culture, space, and survival. by @fourthfloor__

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Eau à Eau is a visual exploration inspired by the Haitian Vodou spirit LaSirenn: a water spirit associated with identity, self-reflection, fluidity, and feminine strength. In Haitian mythology, LaSirenn is often portrayed as a siren who guides individuals through personal journeys of transformation and self-discovery.

In this project, Sophie Ackroyd draws from these mythological roots to interpret water as a metaphor for the inner self—ever-shifting, reflective, and fluid. She uses cyanotype, with its timeless Prussian blue tones, to evoke the presence of water both thematically and materially. As a process that relies largely on water for development, cyanotype becomes both the subject and the method, emphasising water’s role in life and creation.
She incorporates mixed media elements by sewing beads onto the fabric—each one reflecting the hues of water, sunlight or reflections. The tactile addition of beadwork brings a sense of movement and depth, echoing the nature of myth and water.

Like water, this project is fluid and evolving. Through it, Sophie aims to create a piece of art that is both visually compelling and rooted in mythological narratives that continue to shape contemporary practice. by @fourthfloor__

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Sedam slapova, Istria’s “seven waterfalls,” is a landscape once defined by water but now marked by its absence.

Photographer and cultural researcher Deana Kotiga reflects on her Croatian homeland, tracing how environmental change unsettles memory, place, and belonging.

Head to Culture on the site to read more. Link in bio. by @fourthfloor__

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