person sitting on a red chair wearing black holding a nest like bundle infront of their face

LAURA HOPES

Cuckoo

Sculpture and audio installation

VENUE

5. The Orchard, East Close, West Coker
Fri 26 – Sun 28 May, 10am – 5:30pm

You are invited to enter this specially constructed bird hide, and take a moment to step away from other festival goers, to anonymously survey the scene beyond and to listen.

Throughout the world, the cuckoos’ lengthy migrations herald the arrival of spring. Famous for laying their eggs in the nests of other smaller birds, they provide an apt metaphor for the asymmetry between the global rich, their fellow humans, and their more-than-human kin.

Co-selected by CAMP.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Laura Hopes is an artist and researcher working with installation, sculpture, sound and film to generate playful interventions to illuminate terrifying themes.


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