About the work

The hyperlocality in this commission is a Cornish boatyard: a scene of constant adaptation, and home to a motley crew living across 30+ vessels. When a new pay-what-you-feel shop opened on-site in response to COVID-19 self-isolation measures, a few members of Jam Collective began making preserves from surplus provisions to share with their neighbours, seeking food stories as an optional exchange.

This improvised ‘jam’ of recorded sounds and conversation snippets provides an aural snapshot of a place where life unfolds around the tides.

Listen below. You can also download the transcript here.

About the artists

Jam Collective comprises Jodie Saunders, a Devon-based sound artist and co-founder of Noise Laboratory; Arthur Hamel, a Cornwall-based shipwright and geoarchaeologist, Carmen Wong/oho_co, a curiously hungry nomad and artist-researcher newly-based in Cornwall, and residents in a little boatyard in Torpoint who contributed to this work. With thanks to Yann Coiffier, and Jake McTighe.

Jam Collective and oho_co are the copyright holders to all images and sound in this online exhibition. No reproduction of any of these images may be made without the permission of the copyright holder.