Preserving Hole

At 9:15pm today — Preserving Hole by Aled Simons, Bláithín Mac Donnell, and Tom Cardew.

A meteorite, a spoil tip, a mountain or an island. A fatberg. A co-authored story entangling fact, fiction and anecdotal prose. Three voices become one narrator, Celtic myth, folktales, traditions and superstitions are merged, layered and retold.  A hole or a bog, subterranean preservation – like a time capsule in a biscuit tin with a dodgy lid, buried 40 years ago but the water got in. What happens when fact becomes anecdote?

‘There had been heavy rain, a week of torrential downpours, incessant waterfall, fields of crops washed away overnight. Usually after heavy rain they clear the drains of organic waste, leaves, trees, silt and mud. But this time, this time they found a coffin.’

Preserving Hole is a conversational collaboration emerging from research sharing and exploration of practice intersections; fused in tangential storytelling, narrative building and myth making. Unearthing spurious information and hearsay to present a loose-narrative audiobook.