Blind Scouse, 2021

Publication, Audio, Performance, Illustrated by Lara Fuke

Liverpool Biennial 2021

Blind Scouse is an interactive performance by Abbie Bradshaw, featured in Enzyme #2: Life Systems alongside artists Jorge Menna Barreto and Joélson Buggilla for Liverpool Biennial 2021.

The work reframes cooking as a performative inquiry, using instruction as an artistic strategy to disrupt familiar gestures and familar, even historical routines. Through embodied action, Bradshaw explores the relationships between human and non-human systems, and the rituals that emerge through repetition and exchange. Developed within the artist’s local community, Blind Scouse explores the relationship between land, what is cultivated, culturally shaped, created, and ultimately consumed. Centred on Liverpool’s traditional dish, the work reflects on how food connects us beyond physical sustenance binding place, identity, and collective memory.