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Tatties & Typhoid Ham: Tatties and Typhoid Ham is a fusion of live evolving visual art, music, poetry and spoken word, wherein three women born and bred in Aberdeen share their thoughts and experiences on being in lockdown during the typhoid outbreak in 1964 and their concurrent situation during the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak. The women are neighbours and long-term friends, and all come from a working-class background. They speak about mental health, socio-political divides, and the practical implications with regard to food supplies, finances, family, and social relations. 4
The project methodology is built around the representation of everyday life, by celebrating older generation working class women. This in and of itself is a politic which draws across divides of contemporary art spaces and the kinds of lives which these practices usually represent. This community engaged production uses film as a form of live performance bringing stories to life that come from living contexts and lived experiences.
Tatties & Typhoid Ham stars storytellers Diana, Ruby, and Pat, creative writer Sheena Blackhall, composer Maria Sappho, sound mix Annabel Strange, videographers Alex Cormack & Martina Camatta, and visual artist & film director Kate Steenhauer. The northeast poet Sheena Blackhall was quarantined in the city fever hospital off Urquhart street for 2 months during the summer of 1964. So she was an authentic fit to the project
