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Bird Thoughts
- Exploring ‘gods of our time’ at Fringe Bath Arts Festival
- The Inconvenience of Convenience
- Cardboard gods visit Wellbeing Economy Cymru Day at Swansea Arena
- Cardboard gods at Wellbeing Economy Cymru
- A Conversation between Death & Convenience
- Discovering a god of Convenience
- Discovering ‘Nuance’ the goddess
Tag Archives: psychology
Exploring ‘gods of our time’ at Fringe Bath Arts Festival
Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2026 Larks & Ravens are curating ‘godshed’ a 5 day evolving, participative event exploring ‘gods of our time’ at this year’s Fringe Arts Bath Festival . Come & meet some gods & join the conversation, drawing and cardboard … Continue reading
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Tagged FAB26, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, psychology, socially engaged art
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The Inconvenience of Convenience
Alison Kidd February 2026 god of Convenience When, as Larks & Ravens, we are making any of our ‘cardboard gods of our time’, we rarely have much idea at the outset of what any of them will look like. They … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bayo Akomolafe, Cardboard gods, convenience, psychology
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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
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Tagged art, convenience, conversations-with-gods, gods of our time, modernity, psychology
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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
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Tagged allegorical-justification, art, cardboard-gods, fair-society, justice, luck, psychology
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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
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?
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