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Triple Pocket Napkin Fold
GHOST
2020-2022Triple Pocket Napkin Fold is a glimpse into diverse sound-making practices, featuring new compositions by twelve contemporary artists, poets, musicians and theatre makers.

For this project GHOST commissioned artists whose practices engage with concepts or methodologies of opacity and improvisation, key themes in the work of Edouard Glissant, who wrote of these as forms of resistance to dominant culture(s).

A pocket hides what is inside until it can be performatively revealed. From the opacities of poetry and withheld language emerges this collection of folded, layered, improvised, imperfect and unexpected forms of address: mud dancing, whispers, shouts, laughter, screams and vocal sound making that resist the order of speech.

With contributions from Ogutu Muraya, The Postpeople, Cannach MacBride, Angela Schilling, Dean Bowen, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Isabel Marcos, Milena Bonilla, La Leche Travesti, Aloardi, Megan Cope and Isha Ram Das and Dani Reynolds.

The project emerged from a study group on Glissant’s The Poetics of Relation (1990), facilitated in 2019 by GHOST and Tender Center, a queer community space in Rotterdam. It has consisted of three elements, a podcast series supported by ArtSpace´s Ideas Platform, an expanded vinyl record released in 2024 in collaboration with Futura Resistenza, an experimental music/sound record label based in Brussels, and the website: 

https://www.triplepocketnapkinfold.com/

The website is interactive and experimental, and gives the viewer/composer the possibility of overlapping or mixing the different elements made by the artists, and thus altering the opacity and transparency of the individual works, and the project itself, in real time. 




GHOST is a nomadic DIY platform based between Rotterdam and Marseille, co-founded by Madison 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—as well as in galleries and cinemas in Rotterdam, New York, Bogotá and Marseille.

We would like to thank all the Triple Pocket Napkin Fold participants:

Aloardi (Gabriel Castillo, Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta and Janneke van der Putten), Angela Schilling, Cannach MacBride, Dani Reynolds, Dean Bowen, Isabel Marcos, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, La Leche Travesti (Jota Mombaça, Ikí Piña Narváez, Slim Soledad), Megan Cope and Isha Ram Das, Milena Bonilla, Ogutu Muraya, and The Postpeople (Tracy Hanna and Daniel Tuomey).

Website credits:

Concept website: Céline Wouters & Jonathan Sachse Mikkelsen 
Design website: Céline Wouters 
Programming website: Jonathan Sachse Mikkelsen

Vinyl credits:

Design of vinyl booklet and sleeve: Céline Wouters


Sound Credits:
 
Mixing and mastering: Robin Rutenberg (mixed Angela Schilling, Cannach MacBride, Dani Reynolds, Isabel Marcos, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg and The Postpeople works) and mastered the entire project.

Funding support: 

This project was made possible by the generous support of Creative Industries Fund NL, Stimuleringsfonds, Gemeente Rotterdam, and Artspace Australia.

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