godshed - an Imaginal Space
Venue: Newark Works ● BA2 3DZ ● click for map
Private View ● Fri 22 May ● 6pm ‘til late
Exhibition open 23 May to 6 June ● 11am - 6pm
Curated by ‘Larks & Ravens’
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy,"
(Shakespeare’s Hamlet)
godshed is a space between dimensions of reality - earth and the imaginal……
Where is the boundary and how do things move between the two?
Here you may encounter cardboard ‘gods of our time’ who offer just one of many possible representations of the invisible concepts which shape or distort our thinking, values, politics and everyday culture.
Each day features different ‘gods of the day‘ as hosts for a ‘Question of the day’. We invite you to respond through conversation, drawing, writing or in making your own imaginal beings to bring alive concepts which shape thinking and culture and further populate this space.
The godshed exhibition will evolve over 5 consecutive days of participative events (see event dates and times below).
Kirsty and Alison
5 days of godshed participative events ● All free
Monday 25 May ● 11am - 1pm : godshed open forum - drop in & meet the gods, join us in exploring the gods' question of the day
Monday 25 May ● 2pm - 4pm : god making session. Come & add to our panoply of gods of our time. Cardboard provided
Tuesday 26 May ● 11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm : god hothouse - an invited artists' workshop. Making and discussing possible gods of our time together. Numbers limited.
Wednesday 27 May ● 11am - 3pm : godshed open forum - drop in & meet the gods, join us in exploring the gods' question of the day
Thursday 28 May ● 11am - 1pm : god making session. Come & add to our panoply of gods of our time. Cardboard provided
Thursday 28 May ● 2pm - 4pm : godshed open forum - drop in & meet the gods, join us in exploring the gods' question of the day
Friday 29th May ● 11am - 1pm : Our final godshed event. Drop in and meet the panoply of gods of our time & responses to their questions created over the week.
Curated by ‘Larks & Ravens’ (Kirsty Claxton & Alison Kidd)
Kirsty Claxton is a visual artist/curator and Alison Kidd is an experimental psychologist. For the past 10 years, they have collaborated as ‘Larks & Ravens’ combining their different practices and perspectives through drawing, making, metaphor, language and cognition. This enables them to explore and reveal the strangeness of our world and create physical and symbolic contexts which stimulate conversations and fresh thinking about the socio-political and environmental issues of our day.
They are currently creating cardboard ‘gods of our time’ to bring to attention the powerful concepts which shape or distort our country;s thinking, values, politics and everyday culture and stimulate conversations around them. Gods such as Death, Justice, Luck, Growth, Nuance and Convenience have featured in godshed suppers, a 3 day godshed workshop for artists, thinkers and creative practitioners and an exhibition at Wales’ Wellbeing Economy Cymru Event.