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‘The power went to my head… with a little budget and a long leash, un turned me into a kind of lord of independent arts publishing’. Victoria Perin reflects on her time as the un Extended Editor-in-Residence 2025-26, now live online. 📝

Perin takes us through the importance of having a peer-to-peer platform, the precarity of funding, the pairing of young artists with young writers and their personal relationships. 

Her reflection touches on the 10 pieces Perin commissioned and edited over 2025-26, and her symposium ‘Enduring Experimental Poets' — the threads become clear. Ultimately Perin’s EiR pieces leave many questions for future local arts historians to unpick whether it be; how does one archive a local arts scene that was always meant to be ephemeral in nature, and what is the thread between local ARIs and the kind of conspiratorial and enthusiastic scholarship of ‘The Crank’. 

Read it in full on un Extended now! 🗯
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