Tag Archives: art
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
Our first pie-economics supper
A Combination of artists and gods joined us for our first experimental pie supper to dicuss how to share a pie fairly. Real all about it here.
Responding to seeing “Parasite”
After seeing the Oscar winning South Korean film, Parasite, we spent the next day responding through drawing and talking.
Material reconfiguration
How do you unthink/rethink cultural structures which shape what we do and who has the power? The day started with 3 artists, a large floor and a very large sheet of black card.
What’s it worth? – Day 5
A trolley of old 78 rpm records which the stall holder can’t sell and has to get rid of – what are they worth? If we gold plate them and display them on our stall wall, does this change their … Continue reading
How big is money? – Day 4
Is it this big? .. size and perspective distorts the familiar… How big is Jane? “I say ‘money’, what do you say?”
Day 1 – Early exchanges..
Day 1 of exploring exchange and values on our stall at Newport Market. “Can you draw what you value about the market?” Collecting and sharing But sad conversations … “it used to be fantastic“, “‘They’ are to blame“, “where will … Continue reading
What do I see?
How is my view of the world distorted? What’s it distorted by? How is my view different from yours? Which view is “right”? How would I know? Is there an ‘undistorted’ view? … what would that look like?
The Larks and Ravens 