Louise Ashcroft
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Louise Ashcroft's performances, comedy, videos, writing, community projects, drawings, games and sculptures spawn from her optimistic but antagonistic fieldwork in public space; meddling with the bizarre norms of capitalism and reinventing what's possible. ​Speaking fiction to power, Louise's work creates situations and stories which unravel reality and remix primary and secondary research; often deliberately misunderstanding or subverting cultural codes and disrupting systems in order to speculate alternative ways of seeing/being. 
Research-comedy. Participatory Adventures. Pop-Ecology. Small Acts of Resistance. Regenerative Everything.
Nanarchy 2024, performance about intersection of climate protest tactics and my grandmother's hobbies
COMING SOON (Aug2025) - Real Stupidity: Comedians design critical AI. BRAID UK Commission 2025
Storm Machine, 2025, Exhibition on resource exhaustion and residency in a recycling plant
OOF Residency 2024
Scavenger Coat 2023
What to Expect When You're NOT Expecting - Film (2025) and theatre show (2022-3).
Crueller Surprise - Short Stories, 2023
Laughing Matter, 2021. Site-specific wifi network with animations made with self-proclaimed Hoarders in Whitley Bay
No Kids Nursery Rhymes, 2024. Childless / childfree people's lyrical perspectives on family.
Uplands: Utopia I.O.U, 2020. An animated fever dream gleaned from trash on a Walthamstow industrial estate mid-pandemic
Dead Relevant, 2020- a 17th century Frans Hals painting seeks relevance as a .jpeg
BBC Boring Talks
Whose Croytopia?
Urban Investopedia
Deptford Rainbows
Awkward Stowage
Talking to a Brick Wall
Handle With Care
Unlucky Dip
Shopping & Subversion
Unperforming
I'd Rather Be Shopping
Signs
Unicorns of Westfield
All Our Lives
Martian Shipping
Mailing Kings Cross to its investors
Tate Learning: C is for Character
One Hour Holiday
Millwall Subbuteo
Mallopoly
Why Don't We Live Together?
All My Lives
Remaking the Internet
Cephalopod
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