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Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story

Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story is a livestreamed, participatory performance that incorporates ritual, plant knowledge, movement, listening, and response-ability. This program is part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages.” Australian Ensayos collaborators Dr. C.F. Black, Amaara Raheem, and Caitlin Franzmann each bring unique interpretations to divination cards, which they will pull in response to concerns and questions gathered collectively from participants.

Caitlin Franzmann created the divination deck with collaborator Man Cheung’s botanical photographs of plants, rocks, and insects, all of which are found in Karawatha, an urban forest in Australia. One of a number of decks and guidebooks Franzmann has created, “Fortunes of the Forest” prompts associations with living entities, with whom humans share primeval genes, and considers how their ways of being on the planet can guide us. Indigenous legal scholar C.F. Black, PhD, will call the audience to contemplate deeper meaning from the cards based on her understanding of plant consciousness and story. In an ongoing collaboration with Franzmann, dancer Amaara Raheem creates movement scores responding to the cards; for this program, Raheem will invite online participants to join guided movements prompted by the reading.

Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story, celebrates the launch of Ensayos’ online periodical Más allá del fin / Beyond the End, issue #3.5, bilingual essays edited by Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio, with guest editor Helen Hughes. Franzmann and Dr. Black’s shared card readings are published in this issue.











When: Tue., Aug. 18, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Where: New Museum
235 Bowery
212-219-1222
Price: Free
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Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story is a livestreamed, participatory performance that incorporates ritual, plant knowledge, movement, listening, and response-ability. This program is part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages.” Australian Ensayos collaborators Dr. C.F. Black, Amaara Raheem, and Caitlin Franzmann each bring unique interpretations to divination cards, which they will pull in response to concerns and questions gathered collectively from participants.

Caitlin Franzmann created the divination deck with collaborator Man Cheung’s botanical photographs of plants, rocks, and insects, all of which are found in Karawatha, an urban forest in Australia. One of a number of decks and guidebooks Franzmann has created, “Fortunes of the Forest” prompts associations with living entities, with whom humans share primeval genes, and considers how their ways of being on the planet can guide us. Indigenous legal scholar C.F. Black, PhD, will call the audience to contemplate deeper meaning from the cards based on her understanding of plant consciousness and story. In an ongoing collaboration with Franzmann, dancer Amaara Raheem creates movement scores responding to the cards; for this program, Raheem will invite online participants to join guided movements prompted by the reading.

Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story, celebrates the launch of Ensayos’ online periodical Más allá del fin / Beyond the End, issue #3.5, bilingual essays edited by Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio, with guest editor Helen Hughes. Franzmann and Dr. Black’s shared card readings are published in this issue.

Buy tickets/get more info now