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Take What Resonates, Harlesden High Street off site space, London, 2021

Play to hear the exhibition soundscape,Take What Resonates, an audio work of edited psychic predictions received between 2020 – 2021. With sonic spells by Thou Alone and Andree Martis.

For more information listen to a special episode of The Silver Stream on Soho Radio about the exhibition here

So Be It & So It Is, Lumpwood charcoal, Obsidian and Amethyst, 24 black candles, single blue candle, protection & uncrossing incense, dried Solomon’s Seal, sea salt, unfired clay Alchemcial Vessel, cast aluminium, Raven’s feather, spring water, dried vegetation, Major Arcana Alchemical Tarot & iPad with Youtube video.Installed at Collective Ending, 2020.

Psilocybin (The Sediments of Sentiments), installed at Earth Eaters curated by Cole Projects, 2020. Photography by Mirko Boffelli

Melusina, jesmonite, bio resin, acrylic paint, hand crushed quartz crystals, 150x 80×40 cm. Installed within Ancient Deities at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2020.

MOVING ORACLES, touring exhibition, various locations, Berlin, 2020. Featuring works by Byzantia Harlow & Gertrūda Gilytė. Curated by Johanna Janzzen. Supported by MFA Curating Goldsmiths. Photography by Brigita Kasperaite.

Exterior text work by Gertrūda Gilytė, 2020.

Audio work played from van radio by Gertrūda Gilytė, 2020.

Wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away?, participatory installation by Byzantia Harlow, 2020.

Byzantia Harlow, Major Arcana Alchemical Tarot, 2019.

Byzantia Harlow, The Stars and Melusina : What needs to be HEALED?, from Lunar Water Tarot Youtube video series, 2020.

Visitors were invited by Byzantia Harlow to leave a written question as a ritualised offering within her participatory installation. In the weeks following the exhibition audio tarot readings were sent by the artist to each participant in order to answer the question they left.

Lunar Water, solo exhibition at Platform Projects, London, 2019. Photography by Alexander Christie.

Installation view, ten tonnes of earth, crystacal, bio resin, crushed amethyst, ground iron pyrite, steel, foil blankets, fungal spores and cultivated plants.

When the Lion Roars, 12.43 minutes video duration, looping projection onto brass disc.

Divinatory Durational Performance by Byzantia Harlow with Major Arcana Alchemical Tarot. Watercolour and metallic paint on card, dowsing pendulum, protective crystals, moon pillow, foil blankets and alarm clock.

For more info listen to ‘Lunar Water’, a special episode on Soho Radio : https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/free-seed-on-soho-08082019/

Grey Market, Art Night Open, 2019. Supported by Art Night. Grey Market focuses on the verbal interactions that occur within street markets. The second re-iteration celebrated local stories, unique characters and the sense of community within Walthamstow Market.

Harlow embedded herself in the market in the run up to Art Night, working for free for stallholders in return for recording the daily conversations. She operated a stall, swapping printed bag editions in return for market users recalling daily anecdotes and memories of the market. These interactions informed the script for Grey Market, performed by Harlow, her ‘duplicates’ and two market traders.

Documentation of Grey Market for Art Night Open, filmed by Free Seed Films.

Listen to Byzantia Harlow’s Grey Market radio episode for Soho Radio here.

Reflect, as a mirror, the inner truth of the situation, jesmonite, bioresin, flocking, found crystals, found barnacles, crushed rose quartz, ground mirror, cast aluminium, agar jelly and cultivated fungi. Installed at SPACE for the London Creative Network, 2018.

Detail: cast aluminium, jesmonite, agar jelly and cultivated fungi

Detail: found barnacles, jesmonite and flocking

Detail: cultivated mycelium, crushed rose quartz, ground mirror, jesmonite and flocking

Perseverance brings good fortune (a time of harvest), harvesting fungi and mycelium for participants at SPACE, London

We don’t know where the truth isn’t, we just know where she is, video projection on aluminium panel, 13.36 mins duration, 250 x 70 x 30 cm. Documentation of install at SPACE for the London Creative Network Showcase, 2018.

From the same source I have not taken, solo exhibition at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix London, 2018.

Those who drew once from the spring do not seek to keep it in their jug and drink from it alone, installation view, photography by Alexander Christie

The worth of the water (when the well is dry), installation view of collaborative video work by Byzantia Harlow and Orlando Cubitt, duration 07.40 minutes, projection on brass.

Detail, video still, projection on brass. View the full video work here.

With just one sip, we’ll slip away (into the forever), installation view : lichen, dried poppies, jesmonite, bio resin, activated protective crystal, scented oil and pink filtered light, 2018.

The well is being lined, psychedelic Absinthe and Salvia tonic, healing Maitake and Shiitake mushrooms and edible Dianthus and Viola flowers, served during the opening of From the same source I have not taken.

The well is being lined, detail

What endures, no blame, activating event during the opening of ‘From the same source I have not taken’ by Byzantia Harlow accompanied by Joanne Deligeorges, Rhiannon Rogers and Jessica St James. Sonic accompaniment by Johnston Sheard and James Lacey on guitar and bass with members of the audience invited to participate with hand cymbals.

Read accompanying essay, I see people; they look like trees walking around*: pools and/of meaning in Byzantia Harlow’s ‘From the same source I have not taken, by Meg Boulton here.

Duplicate (No one will drink the water of your well if you yourself do not drink it), solo show at Chalton Gallery, London, 2017. Perspex, jesmonite, bio resin, acrylic paint, pigment, cast aluminum, cultured pearls, air plants and succulents sustained from atmospheric liquid within internal well.

Video still, duration 08.20 mins, projection on aluminium panel. View full video here.

Special Event : Using the original instrumentation sound artist Nick Murray performed a live score to accompany the video work in the exhibition. Created as a durational performance, the score changed with each repetition of the video work to highlight the sonic representations of the discrete gestures throughout the work. View full documentation of the performance below.

Spirit Line, Arts Council England & British Council funded project through the Artists International Development Fund, produced at The Luminary, St Louis, USA, 2016.

Woven textile incorporating dream imagery from the local community, produced in collaboration with Michael Jennrich.

Hand embossed silver made by Môjassadop Spiwi Pakholiga.

Participatory performance at the St Louis swap meet, swapping ‘knock off t-shirts in return for participants engaging in recorded ritual dream telling.

With special thanks to Arts Council England and British Council for supporting this project through the Artists International Development Fund, The Luminary, the St Louis Swap Meet, Michael Jennrich, Môjassadop Spiwi Pakholiga and all the local community participants for their collaboration in the project.

Contra-Faux, Bus Stop BC, Beaufort Street, London, offsite element in Royal College of Art Degree Show, 2015

John Dough (Diffusion Line : Tammy Wynette can be sung many ways, and each time it is sung it has an echo of the truth). Performance selling ‘knock off’ dresses in collaboration with local market stall holders, various London locations, 2015 – 2016.

Fi Wi Money Mixtape, edition of 30 jesmonite casts, installed at DKUK and CD Base, Holdrons Arcade, Peckham, 2016.

Fi Wi Money Mixtape on sale at CD Base, Holdrons Arcade, Peckham

Diffuse Glow, installed at Royal College of Art Degree Show, 2015

Dress made in collaboration with knitwear designer Alex Pengelly

What You Know About Fresh!, installed at ICA, London, as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2016. Photograph by Mark Blower.

Polyester Breeze, solo show at The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, 2017

‘Polyester Breeze’ took inspiration from DVD only mockbuster Aliens versus Avatars, found on a market stall for one pound. The multi media installation of sculptures and printed material included cast and modelled replicas of street rubbish resembling molten, oozing outer-space junk.

Alongside sculptural elements, a knock off film made by Harlow was presented on multiple TV screens. The film work, a knock off of an earlier work ‘Grey Market’ stars traders from London’s Bethnal Green Road Market alongside the artist and members of the public and features soundtrack and dialogue ripped from Aliens versus Avatars.

A small number of limited editions of the artists’ film were available to purchase for one pound at the Barras Market. These satellite editions were circulated by traders at the Barras Market labeled as Alien versus Avatars DVDs – a knock off of a knock off blending seamlessly into the daily market action.

Grey Market, first shown at Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2016

Grey Market focuses on the verbal interactions that occur within street markets. Harlow embedded herself within the market for the run up to a performance event at Chisenhale Art Place. She working for stallholders in exchange for recording their daily conversations. These interactions informed the script for Grey Market, performed by Harlow and three market traders at Chisenhale Art Place. A film of this performance was intercut with daily market interactions between the traders involved in the project. This formed the final artwork.

Exchange Event, Bethnal Green Road Market. Harlow operated a stall, swapping printed bag editions (made in collaboration with members of the Old Ford Art Group and Chisenhale School Arts Award Club students) in return for market users recalling their memories of the market. These interactions informed the script for the Grey Market performance.

Screen print workshop with Old Ford Art Group, turning their drawings of market memories into a backdrop for Grey Market performance set, Chisenhale Art Place, 2016

Workshop with Chisenhale School Arts Award Club students, drawing market memories for a print for the backdrop to the performance set for Grey Market and bags at Exchange event

Workshop with Chisenhale School Arts Award Club students creating sculptural elements for the performance / film

With special thanks to Arts Council England for supporting this project through Grants For The Arts, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Chisenhale Art Place, Bethnal Green Road Market stall holders, Chisenhale School Arts Award Club, the Old Ford Art Group and members of the public for their participation in this project.

With special thanks to Bethnal Green Road Market stall holders, Arts Council England, Tower Hamlets Council, Chisenhale Art Place, Chisenhale School Arts Award Club, the Old Ford Art Group and members of the public for their participation in this project.