Nicholas Julian Madison / A self-defined practice
BeSelfDefined
Work across research, writing, public-interest projects, visual work, and narrative.
Enter the work ↓Selected work / 01—12
One mind. Many practices.
The subjects change. The recurring attention—to categories, conditions, human behavior, and what has gone unnoticed—does not.
Movement Is Thinking
What do you notice when you stop treating movement as something separate from thinking?
Haunted House Weddings
Why should someone else’s idea of romance determine what your wedding looks like?
Grammar of Human Experience
What becomes visible when the category stops explaining enough?
Where Care Happens
If we stop looking at where healthcare is organized, where do we actually see care happening?
ALTGASM
How complete is our map of orgasm?
Photography
What changes when you decide what belongs inside the frame?
Locker Room Talk
What are people learning from each other before they ever step onto the field?
Neurosexology
What are we missing when we study sexual experience without adequately accounting for the nervous system and the person having the experience?
Neurosexuality
How do we make complex knowledge about sexual experience useful to the person actually having it?
When Did It Start?
What if we preserved the history before someone had to remember the history?
What Jesus Noticed
What changes when we ask not only what Jesus taught, but what he was paying attention to?
Film & Fiction
What becomes visible about ordinary human behavior when you change the rules of the world around it?
An open invitation
Bring me something you’re trying to understand.
A project, a creative problem, a career question, or a way of working that does not quite fit the categories available to you.