Purple Velvet is a collaboration between Zoë Marden and Vasiliki Antonopoulou. The project began during our masters in MA Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the RCA while part of the queer society. Purple Velvet was a regular event that created a safe space for artists and performers to experiment and test new ideas. It was also a discursive platform that explored the possibilities of building alternative structures to coexist sustainably within institutions. It is organised horizontally and fosters interdisciplinary exchange. Now no longer housed in an institution, it continues to evolve as a collaborative platform. The collective is mutable, it expands and contracts inviting in different modes of production.