English performance artist and food scholar Amanda Couch reprises the ancient Mesopotamian art of liver divination, and tries to answer questions from mortality to Brexit by reading the lines and lobes on a sheep's liver.
“Chance, when you use it to make a composition or to make a decision to do something, it’s taking away from those enlightenment ideas of hierarchies of what art is and returning them back to where they were in prehistoric times when art objects were connected to ritualistic acts.”
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Ox Tales is produced by Anna Sigrithur and edited by Naomi Duguid and Fiona Sinclair with production help by Thomas Krause.
Music by Thomas Krause and Ava Glendinning.
Find out more by visiting our website at https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/podcast/
Episode 14 - The Grandeur that was Lipa
Episode 13 - Taking Back the Hospital Tray
Episode 12 - Why Kitchen Technology Matters
Episode 11 - Family, Freezing and Fermenting in the Arctic
Episode 10 - Acorns and Civilized Panic
Episode 9 - Seeding a Movement for Health and Culture
Episode 8 - The Opium Poppies of Anatolia
Episode 7 - Fermentation as a Co-Evolutionary Force
Coming Soon - Ox Tales Season Two
Ox Tales Episode 6 - Bull's Head Breakfast
Ox Tales episode 4 - Slurp!
Ox Tales episode 3 - More Than Just a Cup of Tea
Ox Tales episode 2 - Quantum Offal
Ox Tales episode 1 - Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puff
Introducing Ox Tales! - Season One Trailer
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