​The Fortune Teller is a series of performances that employ cartomancy and ritual to create moments of encounter and opportunities for conversation around relevant social and political topics. 

Using a unique deck of cards, the readings are rooted in life's principle of contradiction and a radical philosophy of affirmation in order to foster the cultivation of more meaningful relations and and nourish one's own capacities for transformative action in the world. 
Photograph by Hannah Filippa Amsler

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The Gift

Live performance at the Internationalist Queer Pride
July 3rd, 2021 - Berlin


This wandering performance revolved around cartomancy and the anthropological notion of the gift. Each participant who was given a card reading by the Oracle, had to then gift a reading to another person at the event by giving them a "key" in the form of a special card, so they could receive a reading. Readings were only given to those who had the "keys."
By creating simple opportunities to give, receive and reciprocate, the performance aimed to bring participants to the world of the gift, encouraging them to open themselves to the flow of things and the space of contradiction.
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"To give is to plunge back into the current, into the cycle, to move away from linear thinking, to reconnect horizontally but also vertically, in time, rediscovering ancestors."

​-Alain Caillé and Jacques Godbout
Photographs by Albert Dwan

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​The Black Rose Gathering

Immersive live performance
October 31st, 2020 - Berlin

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This immersive performance was rooted in a magic tea ceremony wherein participants discussed current events related to the ongoing pandemic, sharing their own preocupations, fears, and hopes for what was to come. The ceremony culminated with the participants reciting a short incantation which they had collectively written, as it emerged from the discussion that evening. 


The performance offered a space for shared reflection and  moments of real togetherness against the threat of isolation.​
Photographs by Magdalena Valisseva