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 considers the body as a connecting system—an interface that gathers, senses, processes, and moves through its environments. Here, everyday actions such as collecting, assembling, and preparing a place-based dish, Scouse, shift into conscious, choreographed gestures. These routines, usually performed without thought, become sites of attention: movements that reveal how bodies carry histories, proximities, and shared rituals. Within the performance, instruction operates as a quiet disruption, unsettling familiar sequences and opening them to re-interpretation. Through this subtle re-ordering, Blind Scouse traces how the body acts as both conduit and container, translating surroundings into gestures, sounds, and exchanges. The work reflects on how collective memory settles into the smallest of actions—how the simple act of preparing something together becomes a spatial and sensorial dialogue between people, places, and the systems that hold them.