madisonbycroft

I’ve been wondering what to do with this hole. Aka searching coping living in Rome

Found in Rome <3

Visitors in Rome

I was really glad to discover the work of the six other artists nominated this year for the prix Ricard. I was even more glad when we unanimously, without hesitation, together voiced a desire to share the prize. What followed has been no small feat: an incredibly long (French🫠) WhatsApp conversation over six months, many google docs and hours of zooms between us. Beyond this: conversations with the curator @ab_courtin and team members from Fondation Pernod Ricard who helped to realize our desire. This unpaid work is largely invisible but feels important, and reflects a growing sentiment. In addition to our request for sharing the prize, we have proposed a discussion around the place and politics of prizes within contemporary art, that takes place tomorrow PM. Moderated by Elizabeth Lebovici and including Neil Beloufa, Tai Shani, Antonia Scintilla, Isabelle Alfonsi and Wages for Wages against - Here’s to hoping that this year is not exceptional, just a very sensible new norm. The show is open until the 31st of October. (Spooky). I’m showing a four channel work called Waterlogue, Four on the Floor, that follows four humans and one dog on a journey that mirrors a hydrological cycle. They attune themselves to different waters that hold, store, synthesize and transmit information. Alongside thinking of water as post-natural in this way, Waterlogue is inspired by disco music and Kamau Braithwaite’s idea of ‘sea-metrics’ that trouble standardised metric systems, through the rhythms and dynamics of water. Aptly, maybe, in the context of the prize, the work celebrates simultaneity and/or porousness of self that can produce ecstasy (standing outside oneself), contagion and supreme absorption (saturated with the outside). These states of self unsteady the idea of a sovereign subject, the individual as discrete and separate. Anyway if you’re not into that, there is also a banging disco Louise BSX soundtrack. Thanks to @mecenesdusud and @la_becque and my darling collaborators Aez, Leo, Ife, Ash, Louise and Joel. 1 - 4 images of Waterlogue 5. HaYoung 6. Paul Maheke 7. Charlotte Houette 8. Mona Varichon 9. Clementine Adou 10. Lenio Kaklea

We are beyond happy to announce the launch of Triple Pocket Napkin Fold @wiels_brussels Art Book Fair this weekend, in collaboration with @futura_resistenza The album features work by; Ogutu Muraya, The Postpeople, Cannach McBride, Angela Schilling, Dean Bowen, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Isabel Marcos, Milena Bonilla, La Leche Travesti, Aloardi, Megan Cope and Isha Ram Das and Dani Reynolds @ogutumuraya @thepostpeople @oliver___white @dean_bowen @bark4kisses @milena.bonilla @jotamombaca @slimsoledad @aloardi_ @nutmegandhoney @boy_venus @illuminaughty__69 The vinyl brings together many attitudes and approaches to sound, poetry and music-making. Tracks range from funny to haunting, abstract to lyrical; from a meditation on sporting trophies to an address to an unnamed colleague or a trapped bee, though all are thoughtful, compelling and beautifully composed. It offers a welcome glimpse into the richness and diversity of soundmaking practices. Mastering by @gabedarling and beautiful design by @celinewouters. Come pick up your copy this Saturday 5th 11-19:00 or Sunday 6th 11-18:00 🫶🫶🫶 GHOST is a nomadic DIY platform based between Rotterdam and Marseille, co-founded by Mads Bycroft (AUS), Kari Robertson (UK) and Natalia Sorzano (COL). Under this cipher, they are interested in experimental forms of assistance, collaboration, authorship and exhibition making. They have initiated screenings, performance events, and exhibitions across alternative locations—a boat, a botanical garden, a community centre, a website, a vinyl—as well as in galleries and cinemas in Rotterdam, Sydney, New York, Bogotá and Marseille.

Long work in progress almost there. With the inimitable Aez, Ife and Leo. The sound track by Louise BSX Waterlogue: Four on the Floor, feat. disco and water, post-naturally

37 💫 ☀️ 🪐 Another year, another quest, another headshot Thanks for the photo Daniele Molajoli

TEN TICKLES- MY FANCY is launched. A passion project of 4 years with dear @guilhem.monceaux. Documentation of a series of aquatic works I made since… 2016? Images and texts, scripts, notes, subtitles, and an essay about mystical cuttlefish in Barngarla Country. Feels more like a sweet family photo album of collaboration. We are printing 100, DM if you would like to buy one, 15 € + shipping.

I’m searching most urgently for a hero.ine character, A naughty Augur, based in Rome, but also several smaller roles based in Rome or cities not-too-far-away (IT. Obvs., but also FR, NL, AT, UK etc.) The central character is <35 years, but the others have no limitation. Please get in contact with me to express interest or for more information by DM or at bycroft.studio@gmail.com. All roles are LGBTQIA+ and allies, speaking english and bad latin. All roles are paid, shooting in June and July in Rome at the Villa Medici, and other locations close by. Must love singing. Appreciation of puns. Enthusiasm > experience 💚. Plz share. The desire to lie has to do with power, and the limits, or non-existence, of dialogue within unequal and unknowable power relations. “Lying” and asserting the unknowable as an unending space of writing is an aspect, and/or a masking, of the political current that runs under the fiction I most readily choose to think about. - Carla Harryman

The Rhône glacier, with thermal blankets to slow the melting. Shooting last year for Waterlogue, as part of @la_becque residency

some notes 1. The name for this cactus fig – saber – is the same as the word for patience, resilience, tenacity. Also, a quote by Mustafa, a pseudonym used in an interview with Maya Rosen in Jewish currents. “but we have a long tradition of sumud [steadfastness]. We have been steadfast on our land for generations. Our ancestors taught us to stay on our land, to take care of everyone in our community. We will keep steadfast.” 2. A fragment from ‘Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, directed by Terence Dixon 1970. I loved this film for its negativity, Baldwin’s refusal to be captured and stealth in escaping being framed. 3. A fragment from an interview with Fred Moten and Jared Ware (you can find this on youtube). Also: Jack Halberstam’s intro for The Undercommons: “When you seek to make things better, you are not just doing it for the Other, you must also be doing it for yourself… The structures they oppose are not only bad for some of us, they are bad for all of us… Or, as Moten puts it: ‘The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?’” 4. Mahmoud Darwish. This is from his poem A State of Siege, a book gifted by my love Dina Mimi: Another part of the poem: I wrote twenty lines about love, and imagined this siege has withdrawn twenty meters. 5. Kwame Ture in “Tell me Lies” by Peter Brook 6. Image of graffiti in Marseille: Palestine will live. This is in the park of la Bonne Mère that once helped sailors locate home. 7. Thanks to Bisan, Motaz Azaiza, Hind Khoudari, and Yara Eid amongst others for helping us 👀 Also thanks to Mykki Blanco, Hayley Millar Baker, Mat Chun, Tai Shani, Hanna black, Dina Mimi, Raoni Muzho, Kari Robertson, Nika Sorzano, Geo Wyex, Brian Fuata, Joanna Kitto, Jean Rocher, and India Moore 8. From “Explanations are not Excuses” In NY Mag by Sarah Schulman. 9. Look well 10. Toni Morrison: This is precisely the moment when artists go to work. There is no time for despair.

Nous artistes, travailleur.ses et acteur.ices de diverse et différentes scènes culturelles françaises et transnationales, appelons à une mobilisation collective pour la Palestine occupée et pour un processus de liberté par la justice au proche-orient. [version modifiée 💜] @culture_gouv @rima.abdulmalak #ceasefirenow #gaza 🇵🇸