Triple Pocket Napkin Fold

“Triple Pocket Napkin Fold” brings together the work of 12 artists, poets, musicians and theatre makers, facilitated by GHOST, a DIY nomadic platform working between Rotterdam, NL, and Marseille, FR.

“Triple 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. Booklet and sleeve artwork by contributing artists; design by Céline Wouters; mastering by Robin Rutenburg.

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 gall