Author Archives: Alison Kidd
Cardboard gods visit Wellbeing Economy Cymru Day at Swansea Arena
Here are 3 of our cardboad “gods of our time” featuring last week at Wellbeing Economy Cymru Day at Swansea Arena. We took along Death, Meritocracy and Lady Luck each with a question they wished to ask the audience. People’s … Continue reading
Cardboard gods at Wellbeing Economy Cymru
We, the Larks & Ravens, and our cardboard gods are delighted to be taking part at the Wellbeing Economy Cymru Day at Swansea Arena on November 12th. We hope our life size gods of Justice, Death, Luck, Meritocracy, Balance & … Continue reading
A Conversation between Death & Convenience
Last week we had an impromptu get-together of the various cardboard ‘gods of our time’ which we’ve so far made. A few of the original ones are looking a bit tatty round the edges as a result of their various … Continue reading
Discovering a god of Convenience
The most recent god to emerge from sheets of cardboard on our cutting table is ‘Convenience’ – a concept inspired by a random conversation with an American lady complaining about its dominance in our lives today. In making new gods … Continue reading
Discovering ‘Nuance’ the goddess
I’ve written a short piece about my experience of unravelling what the concept of “nuance” might mean in our conflicted world through physically making a cardboard life sized Nuance goddess.
Is Lady Luck visible enough?
Our primary motivation in creating life size ‘gods of our time’ is to make visible and conversable the concepts which shape our lives, cultures, politics and thinking. Last summer, we had an improv dialogue between 2 of our ‘gods’ – … Continue reading
Lady Justice on walkabout
Our original cardboard goddess ‘Lady Justice’ has become a bit battered over time & has lost some of her body parts but she still has a powerful presence! We took her along with Lady Luck and a god of Growth … Continue reading
Bring a ‘god’ to supper
For a while, Larks and Ravens have been creating cardboard ‘gods’ as characterful instantiations of concepts which shape our culture. We’re intrigued by this question: “what are the ‘gods’ which led our society to where it is today and what … Continue reading
Creating gods for our time – what happened?
5 artists from diverse practices and perspectives joined Larks & Ravens for 2.5 days at the Centre for Alternative Technology in October to imagine, explore, play and create together in response to this question: “what gods have shaped our current … Continue reading
a god making day
We decided we hadn’t made any new gods for a while ….. So…Welcome Rubi, the goddess of UBI (Universal Basic Income) – a non discriminatory distributer of equal financial resource to every individual in respect of their birthright as a … Continue reading
Death & Growth’s day out in London
On Saturday, we took 2 of our cardboard ‘gods’ – Death & Growth to London for a session with writer and Improv performer Susan Harrison on ways we might create more animated dialogue with the gods we have made. The … Continue reading
6 Artists selected for ‘Creating gods’ residency
We were delighted by the enthusiastic response to our invite for a small group of diverse artists from different practises and perspectives to join us for 3 days at the Centre for Alternative Technology in mid October to work together … Continue reading
Creating gods for our time – Invite
‘Creating gods for our time’ – 3 day residential workshop https://larksandravens.com/an-invite/14th-17th October 2024.Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Wales, SY20 9AZ We are looking to bring together 6 diverse creative practitioners and thinkers to playfully address the question “what gods have … Continue reading
Larks & Ravens – our latest activity
After experimental pie suppers with a mix of guests and gods around the table, we decided that we needed to find more powerful ways of animating our gods and ways of interacting with them. Reading Lewis Hyde’s book together ‘Trickster … Continue reading
The Larks and Ravens 