Jj Fadaka and Ria Andrews join us as EAF’s first Civic Artists-in-Residence. Working across the programme in 2025-26, both artists will continue to develop their practice through shared tender conversations, personal learnings and experimental documentation.

To begin their residency, Fadaka and Andrews created My Blood Runs Purple – an experimental short film comprised of poetry, field music, and testimony, reflecting as two artists living in so-called black, gendered bodies.

This body of work questions the inequalities and barriers in public healthcare offered to them, exploring alternative categories of ‘health’ and ‘wellness’. My Blood Runs Purple will be shared and discussed with local communities, health care workers, archival and academic representatives and as a continued dialogue within their friendship – continuing an exploration of flailing health and social care structures, and demanding everything historically marginalised bodies deserve.

Events Programme

See more of My Blood Runs Purple in:

→ Jj Fadaka + Ria Andrews: My Blood Runs Purple at the EAF Pavilion
→ Jj Fadaka + Ria Andrews: My Blood Runs Purple Artist Talk at the EAF Pavilion
→ EAF X Outer Spaces: HOST at the EAF Pavilion

My Blood Runs Purple has been developed as part of Fadaka and Andrews’ EAF X Outer Spaces: HOST residency, and supported by time in residence at the Hugo Burge Foundation. The Civic Artist-In-Residence programme is provided as part of the EAF Civic Programme.