A sketch for a new artwork - an interactive tablecloth that supports convivial gatherings around seasonality and kinship.

 

Rituals and Robots

Rituals and Robots is a new project being developed by the artist Rachel Jacobs. It will provide a platform to consider the impacts of climate and environmental change as they intersect and are shaped by digital technology. 

Rituals and Robots brings people together to respond to the question “will we need rituals or robots when the future comes?”

Through a process of research & development the project aims to create:

  • 3 new interactive ‘slow’ sustainable artworks, each acting as a ‘totem’, ‘punctum’ or ‘trigger point’ for public interventions and convivial gatherings
  • An online space, building an informal community to share ideas & positive visions of the future through short stories, essays, videos and recorded conversations.
  • public workshops & convivial gatherings inviting people to creatively engage with the question ‘what do we need to thrive in the future?’

 

Public Workshops

Rachel will be running a series of workshops and activities in Nottingham, London and Cumbria to explore Rituals and Robots and the themes of this project, across each of these diverse places in England. The dates, times and venues will be updated here as the programme comes together. 

Primary Open Logo

A Drop In Workshop at Primary Studios, Studio A11, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham NG7 1NU, 10am – 1pm
Rachel is inviting people to join her around the table in her studio at Primary, to think together about what we need to thrive in the future. 

 

Essays and Ideas

In Defence Of Clumsy Machines

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