Report: The Cornwall Workshop 2024 by Andy Parker, a participant

The tenor of the 2024 Cornwall Workshop was set in a letter to participants from lead artist, Mike Nelson. With thoughts rooted in the pandemic, the writing considered Robinson Crusoe’s approach to surviving isolation, and what the parallels were between his 16th-century period of expansion and our current moment. I was drawn to the uncertainty that infused the letter, its mention of peripheral glimpses and its focus on the individual in relation to mysterious and shifting webs of commerce, wealth and power. It outlined a loose series of local explorations, seeking prompts and misunderstandings amongst cultural sites of all epochs in the landscape of the Lizard Peninsula. It promised “A lot of questions and no clear structure to obtain any answers…”

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