Description
Blending fantasy and real life, Lucky Charms explores how creating a contemporary mythology can encourage a sense of belonging and placemaking. The book is a mixture of documentary and fiction in such a way as to simultaneously cast doubt on established ‘truth narratives’ and at the same time promote a sense of magical connection to the locale. Each story is pushed through a range of media: words (history and geography next to magical realist fiction) and images (documentary photography, sculpture, illustration, and performance). Lucky Charms is in itself the artwork. It is not the presentation of documentation of artworks that have happened outside its pages, so much as the site of the artwork itself.By creating a new mythology with and about the people and places of Guantian, Lucky Charms tests the possibilities to deepen sense of place. The hypothesis here is that by creating contemporary folklore, based in fact but quickly (and obviously) becoming fiction, residents will have a sense of belonging, connecting them to their locale and to each other. Lucky Charms has been created together with students from five departments in two universities, with professional artists and writers, and community participants.
| Period | Jul 2023 → … |
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