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About
Teneu (pronounced Ten-Nu) is a new audio work by Rosie’s Disobedient Press for Glasgow International 2021. The work draws attention to the position the city finds itself in during this intense period of cultural interest. The piece uses methods of improvisation and collage to perpetuate a process of collective writing — what develops will be in direct response to the city and the creative community at that time of the festival. The work is narrated and cared for by St Enoch, otherwise known as Teneu, the fabled mother of Glasgow that is also one of its largest Shopping Centres.
You can listen to the work via mixcloud at the top of this page.
Credits
Teneu is a collaboration which was written by Adrien Howard and Lisette May Monroe (both Rosie’s Disobedient Press) with performance and translation by Cass Ezeji.
The sounds on the project were devised and recorded by Sean Patrick Campbell and David Scott.
The mixing on this project was done by Jen Martin.
Cass Ezeji
Cass Ezeji is a singer, performer and linguist from Glasgow, Scotland. As a Gaelic speaker, she is particularly interested in filling the historical voids that omit the experiences of black and other non-white Gaels. Her work aims to expand and enhance the ways in which we think about Gaelic language and culture whilst amplifying marginalised voices.
Cass is part of Sister Collective with Siobhain Ma, a creative collective that explores the experiences and challenges facing mixed race Scottish women. They produced the work Hotline commissioned by Radiophrenia, which was a live-to-broadcast performance at the Centre of Contemporary Art combining soundbites, their poetry and pre-recorded interviews with young mixed-race women in Glasgow to explore the ‘mixed experience’ in Scotland.
Cass is also part of the duo LAPS with Alicia Matthews. Their releases include 2014’s self-titled EP, an underground cult favorite & 2017’s ‘Who Me?’ released on MIC Records and released on DFA. Their music has been championed by the likes of The Vinyl Factory, Low Company & RA as well as being featured in Rihanna’s debut Savage X Fenty NYFW show.
Sean Patrick Campbell
Sean Patrick Campbell is an artist and musician living and working in Glasgow. Graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2019, his practise uses photography to enter into a dialogue between ecologies of landscape & mythology – personal, cultural, political. His work spills out into rituals of text, sculpture and moving image; these are the interlocking parts of his inquiry into the physical and psychic structures that build Worlds. He is always looking for ghosts – of hidden pasts, lost futures and the ever-haunted present.
Recent exhibitions include ‘TULPA’, a collaborative show at Bloc Projects in Sheffield with artist Allan Gardner, and ‘Imagining an Island’, a group show at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist.
David Scott
David Scott is a musician and researcher based in Glasgow.
Jen Martin
Jen Martin is an artist and writer from Wester Ross, based in Glasgow. Jen works collaboratively in film and sound, has exhibited work at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow in 2019, freelances as an editor, colourist and technician.
Saint Teneu
Teneu (or Thenew (Latin: Theneva), Tannoch, Thaney, Thanea, Denw) is a legendary Christian saint who was venerated in medieval Glasgow, Scotland. Traditionally she was a sixth-century Brittonic princess of the ancient kingdom of Gododdin (in what became Lothian) and the mother of Saint Kentigern, apostle to the Britons of Strathclyde and founder of the city of Glas Ghu (Glasgow). She and her son are regarded as the city’s co-patrons, and Glasgow’s St. Enoch Square allegedly marks the site of a medieval chapel dedicated to her, built on or near her grave (“St. Enoch” is in fact a corruption of “St. Teneu”). She is commemorated, annually, on July 18.
Source: Wikipedia
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We would like to thank Naomi van Dijck for being an ongoing source of support in realising this project and for taking so much time and care in working out how to create the platforms for Rosie’s in the digital universe. We would also like to thank Aimee Ballinger, Eoin Dara and Mason Leaver – Yap for all the conversations, criticality and guidance which has fed into this work. We would like to thank Sam Venables for her handwritten texts which inform so much of Rosie’s identity. Thanks to Glasgow International and Creative Scotland whose funding has ensured we have been able to commit to paying people to contribute and collaborate with us on this project. Finally we would like to thank all the collaborators on this project Cass Ezeji, Sean P Campbell, David Scott and Jen Martin who have been so generous with their time, their practises and their input, for this we are very grateful.