MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #7 - A Conversation About Art Working & Colonial Legacies, with Association of Unknown Shores

In this seventh podcast I am joined by artists Kayle Brandon and Angela Piccini of Association of Unknown Shores.

Association of Unknown Shores, formed in 2018, is an interdisciplinary social practice art project and platform for the research, production and commissioning of art and cultural works. The project explores the hidden nature of persistent material and remembered traces of the enforced cultural exchange between what we now know as the UK and Canada. Working with the legacies of Martin Frobisher’s 16th-century attempt to colonise Nunavut.

A collective of disaporic artists, Association of Unknown Shores turns the unknown back on itself to critique the worn colonial ‘discovery’ trope.

 

MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) is a multi-platform project using sculpture-making and conversation to explore contemporary Cornish cultural identity. To find out more please visit www.sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-Brewyon-Drudh. Through workshops, podcasts, a symposium and an exhibition the project invites people to share their experiences of identity and Cornwall, and their views on Cornish culture and its relationship to land, language, heritage, tourism, the Cornish diaspora and much more. 

 

These podcasts record conversations between me, Sovay Berriman, and guests whose research or lived experienced touches on the project themes. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own. All conversations are carried out with a spirit of generosity and openness, creating space for the discussions to twist and turn.

Govenek a'm beus hwi dhe omlowenhe goslowes orto/ I hope you enjoy listening  

 

Please note: These podcasts were recorded in different locations and with a range of equipment. As such the sound quality varies and at times external factors are more present than ideal in the recordings.   Resources: For a full list of resources and references for the project please visit https://sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-Resources  

Avon Stories - Avon Canoe Pilot - Sarah Connolly talks with Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon for her podcast
‘White liar and the known shore’ - Jaimie Griffiths & Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
Cleo Lake
Clearwell Caves
Janet-Pitsiulaaq-Brewster
https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/Janet-Pitsiulaaq-Brewsterhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/06/woman-free-miner
Elaine Morman - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-gloucestershire-45697969https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_cap
Alison Bain
Norah Kennedy