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In popular culture, tarot cards tell us the future. But what if we think of the tarot not a future-tellers, but as perspective-shifters? Not as keepers of truth, but instead as invitations to wander differently through situations, to notice new patterns and analogies, to find new reasons to move?

The tarot became an important tool in our exploration of rigged dialogue practices. Drawing a card was a way of making a cut, shaking things up, or resolving a blockage. We started creating our own deck, specific to circus and to the particular interests the project.

Dialogue

Rigged Dialogues

Tarot

Major and Minor Arcana
Rest
Necessity
Boy
Commitment
Catastrophe
Contract
Crumble
Cupped Hands
Digestion
Discipline
Echo
Five of Braids
Forever
Leak
Mustard
NO
Pain
Refusal
Resistance
Shroud
Smoke
The Disappearing Melter
The Russian Dolls

Bark

 

Reaction, release, romance 

 

Bark indicates that you went to a period of reaction. Events, people or conflicts have provoked intense reactions in you. You either have already expressed these reactions, or will soon do so in the future. That’s intense, good luck. The card however, invites you to focus on the period right after the barking. Thus, it proposes a period of release, rest and recharge. 

 

Romantically, the bark symbolisms a frontal meeting of energies. For the good or the bad. Here too, the bark implies its recoil: the period right after. The card needs you to reflect on what is left after the event? The frustration or the fulfillment, probably both. 

 

The orange shapes in the image refer to a period of intense confrontation or honesty. Their dark blue surroundings show the aftermath, and the sea of possibilities arising from that. 

 

ADVICE 

Ventilate whatever is boiling, tend to the aftermath.

From this Project

Open Letters
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Dialogues
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