Folk Archive - link to weird community stuff i mentioned this morning

I'm sure craft cirlcle can match this - can we have some of your photos on here Liz, or a link to the craft circle site - i liked the wooly tomatoes.

http://www.jeremy-deller.co.uk/folk-archive/folk-archive-show.html

Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane

Folk Archive

Project by Turner prize winner, Jeremy Deller – see above link, documenting many aspects of ‘Folk’ art in Britain. Also documented on the site below – which has many interesting categories, including art from prisons, an alternative community?

http://www.folkarchive.co.uk/


'The work ranges from an evil scarecrow that resembles Michael Jackson, completewith gloves, to a penis made of burrs. Sometimes the political element is obvious, as inEd Hall's colour-filled banners from protest marches. At other times the rebellion and dissent is not so clear-cut, but there is a sense of something anarchic in all the work. The choices may be personal to the artists but their resonance is universal. The Folk Archive raises absorbing questions about British-ness. How do the strange events and visual ephemera of modern life create an image of a country's psyche?What are the stories floating behind the glimpses of protest, anger, chaos and fun? Most importantly, how do these objects and images explain the motivation behind creativity? In fact, what makes this collection of photographs, videos and weird stuff so interesting is wondering why they exist at all. ' BBC Interview @ http://www.jeremy-deller.co.uk/folk-archive/deller-folkarchive-bbc.html