What is it about?
This article explores the 'leftovers' of agricultural practice in the uplands of Mid-Wales, asking what gets saved and why? Within rural areas, choices are made from various interest groups about what can be defined as cultural heritage. This paper attempts to challenge these view-points, and to offer a re-consideration of the storied landscape as a place of knowing from the inside. Reflecting on the practice of making a series of ten-stop-animated films at various locations around an upland sheep farm in Mid-Wales, I draw attention to hidden cultural artefacts and landmarks; the ordinary and the mundane 'leftovers' of agricultural life.
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Why is it important?
The article expresses alternative visions for cultural heritage and preservation. It engages with the politics of land-use, and expresses how those who live and work in such landscapes might have a different perspective on what is 'worth saving'.
Perspectives
An article about fence-posts and gates might seem random and insignificant, however, the work is about reconsidering what can be defined as having cultural significance. The films the article describes can be thought of through the practice as research lens.
Dr Ffion Jones
Aberystwyth University
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This page is a summary of: Agricultural Detritus and Artistic Practices, Performance Research, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1433390.
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