ABOUT
Placed In Time: Archiving Milton Keynes’ Youth Culture is led by Buckinghamshire artist Pol Bradford-Corris. He works across photography, collage, film and text, exploring issues around trans and queer representation and the politics of the archive.
The commission seeks to engage young people living in the city with archiving, thinking about new ways to document our histories and tell our stories creatively for future generations.
Over the coming months, Pol will work closely with young people in Milton Keynes to determine what form a new archive may take, what young people might want to see included, and how it can be accessible and exciting. The material created from this will feed into a new interactive public artwork.
The project will give space to young people to tell their stories, in their own words, empowering them to think creatively about how they want to document their personal histories for the future.
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get involved
Youth history, especially from young people’s perspectives, is difficult to come by in the archive, and this project aims to start filling in some of these gaps. Often, stories about young people, especially marginalised young people, are not told in their own voices, whether that be in the media or traditional archives. Between May - September Pol will be hosting a series of informal workshops offering a creative space for young people to tell their stories and share their experiences of living in Milton Keynes.
Interested in getting involved?
Placed In Time is commissioned by Fuelled By Youth in partnership with Milton Keynes Youth Council. Fuelled By Youth is funded by Milton Keynes City Council and Postcode Society Trust.
Images courtesy Living Archive
