In the Margins: Tales from a Peri Vale

In the Margins: Tales from a Peri Vale is a five-part, fifteen-minute audio (stranger-than) fiction series by artist Becky Lyon encouraging us to read…or listen…between the (border) lines. Five stories embrace the strangeness, mystery and possibility that dwells in the margins and places of the in-between… 

The pages unfold from Perivale Library in Perivale, a curious building in an extraordinary periurban neighbourhood on the periphery of London. Here, multiple ecologies meet and mingle with each other opening new perispectives of where built environments and seeded environments begin and end.

Visitors are encouraged to search the margins of the library to locate photographic objects which act as ‘triggers’ for each chapter of the story. Alternatively, library users can cosy up in the living room to listen to the full story.

This project concludes a summer-long residency at Perivale Hive supported by Ealing Council. The final work has emerged with generous input from local residents and volunteers generated at two public events. 

The work is available to experience from Friday 8th September open Tueday’s 9-5, Wednesday’s 9.30-5, Thursday’s 9.30-2 and Saturday’s 10-2.