The first chapter of the series, Ready Mix, was commissioned and subsequently presented by the Dia Art Foundation, to inaugurate their Chelsea location in 2022.
Ready Mix also expands on Raven’s preoccupation with the extraction of natural resources, changes of material states, and manufacturing processes that generate the physical substrates for today’s interconnected economies.
At times the film evokes the temporary liquidity of concrete as well as the fluid (while seemingly intractable) forces that shape the development of infrastructure.
In addition to his work as composer on the entire Drumfire, Parks also collaborated with Raven on Remix: Ready Mix, an LP produced and released by Dia.
[15] Over the past decade, Raven has been included in significant group shows globally, including and Materials and Money and Crisis, Mumok, Vienna, Austria; Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art (both 2013); the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2015); La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; The Artist’s Medium, ICA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (both 2016); Generation Loss, Julia Stosheck Collection, Düsseldorf; Matrix for Actual Time, MASP, San Paulo, Brazil; Multiple Future, Yebisu International Festival of Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo (all 2017); Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 3D: Double Vision, LACMA, Los Angeles (both 2018); and most recently Drum Listens to Heart, CCA Wattis, San Francisco; A Divided Landscape, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas (both 2022).