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Louise Ashcroft www.louiseashcroft.org @louiseashcroft1 Speaking fiction to power 1. Anarcho-comedy Playing the world wrongly to create moments of confusion, as resistance to power. Art|Language|Location Festival, 2015 Scare the Horses

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Louise Ashcroft www.louiseashcroft.org @louiseashcroft1 Speaking fiction to power

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  • 1. Anarcho-comedy

Playing the world wrongly to create moments of confusion, as resistance to power.

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Art|Language|Location Festival, 2015

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Scare the Horses performance club, 2019.

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  • 2. Fieldwork in sites of commerce

Queering / querying / confusing capitalism

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I’d Rather Be Shopping, 2017. Arebyte Gallery

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View accompanying video extract from Unicorns of Westfield, 2017. Video about capitalism and mythology made during residency in a shopping

  • mall. 5.36 minutes full.

Exhibited at Arebyte Gallery London and various film festivals.

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Boring Talks, 2018. BBC iPlayer (link here).

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House clearance market – Jumble of

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people’s identities = empathy- machine

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Deptford X Festival, 2018.

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Deptford Rainbows, 2018. Video exploring gentrification. DeptfordX Festival.

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  • 3. Speculative and imaginary everyday life. Creating spaces outside social

conventions, as resistance to power structures (such as art history / capitalism / nuclear family structure).

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IS FOR CHARACTER

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Supernormal festival 2019

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All Our Lives, 2018, interactive installation. Salisbury Arts Centre.

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All My Lives installation with audio narrative (click here to listen), Arebyte Laser project space.

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Monsters of the Deep, 2017. Coastal Currents Festival - Hastings.

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  • 4. Maximal minimalism - there is already enough stuff in the world

Reuse, reinvent, reimagine it.

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Talking to a Brick Wall, 2018. Goldsmiths CCA Gallery, London.

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You’re the HD to my ADHD, 2018. Wellcome Collection.

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Awkward Stowage, 2019. Art Night London.

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Whose Croytopia? 2019. Fungus Press, Turf Projects.

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  • 5. Fan fiction about strangers – identity collage
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Cephalopod, 2019.

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Cephalopod, 2019. Video on monitor. BQ Berlin install view.

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Keen to collaborate or share ideas, please contact me: Louise Ashcroft www.louiseashcroft.org @louiseashcroft1