Mutual Cores, Arcana Shanks, 2023. 

Plainsman clay, potting soil, plywood, rope, 2023, 10’ x 10’, photo credit to Melanie Andony and Spencer Vandermeer.

For four days during The Works International Art and Design Festival 2023, visitors to the festival were invited to participate in a collaborative performance-installation inspired by Genevieve von Petzinger’s research on prehistoric cave paintings. Participants were given creative freedom with a small piece of raw clay, either to take home or to add to the growing collection. Over 150 art objects were collected, alongside the artist’s contributions, and ultimately all pieces were destroyed by a rainstorm on the final day of the festival.

Mutual Cores was featured in Fish Griwkowsky’s “A Walkthrough Guide to the Works Art and Design Festival 2023”, published in the Edmonton Journal.