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.
This card brings pain. What kind of pain is it? Where does it touch you? How does it make you feel? Sometimes the pain is in the watching, sometimes it’s in the being watched, sometimes it is precisely in between these two.