The Oracle // What is your prophecy for the future? // The Wand // Sept. 12 – Oct. 06, 2013

The Oracle: »What is your prophecy for the future?«
Opening: September 12, 19h
Exhibition: September 12 – October 06, 2013
The Wand, Paulstrasse 34, 10557 Berlin
Opening Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 14h – 18h

The Oracle is a research project by ƒƒ about how the future is envisioned today. By generating wishes for a utopian future or by channeling fears of a dystopian nature, the project generates an overview of reflections on today’s society. The Oracle is a collective imagining realized by its participants. Instead of the traditional and supernatural voice of a sole oracle, its power is redistributed to include a multitude of voices, with the site of reception localized at The Wand.

“What is your prophecy for the future?”

Participants (list in development): John Phillip Abbott, Michel Aniol, Nina Backman, Lisa Beck, Ada Bell, Enrico Bertelli, Magdalena Bichler, Stefan Bohnhoff, Melanie Bonajo, Amanda Brennan, Mark Briggs, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Benjamin Busch, CALL (Ida Lennartsson, Gitte Jabs, Stine Midtsæter & Max Boss/Easter, Sandra Poppe, Jana Schumacher, Anna Steinert, Cathrin Ulikowski), Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Catherine Chung and Faye Chiao, Sebastian Cichocki, Coco Rosie, Tammi L Coles, Lizza May David, Juliette Déjoué, Kai Dieterich, Christina Dimitriadis/ƒƒ, Milena Dragicevic, Viviana Druga, Sophie Dupont, Mary Beth Edelson, Eve Eisenstadt, Korhan Erel, Sophie Erlund, Xenia Fink, Ali Fitzgerald, Wolfgang Ganter, Adrienne Goehler, Björn Gottstein, Gabriele Franziska Götz, Cecilie Gravesen, Mathiew Greenfield, Mariola Groener, Eva Grubinger, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Hulda Ros Gudnadottir and Claus Lehmann, Sadie Lune, Nilbar Gures, Constantin Hartenstein, Veronika Hauer, Risk Hazekamp, Manfred Ahriman Heinfeldner, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Sue Hlavenka, Sonja Hornung, Michelle Howard, J&K (Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard)/ƒƒ and The Artist Kelsie, Anne E. Johnson, Renata Kaminska, Barbara Kapusta, Silke Kästner, Anna Kostreva, Linards Kulless, Anik Lazar, Julia Lazarus, Hanne Lippard, Melissa Logan, Max Lust, Mad Kate, Matthew Magee, Antje Majewski/ƒƒ, Lorena Mal, Marta Marce, Matthieu Martin, Kate McCurdy, Mary Meixner, Paula Johanna Mierzowsky and Christian Philip Berger, Kirsi Mikkola, Linda Mary Montano, Ingo Niermann, Nissa Nishikawa, Hester Oerlemans, Kirsten Otzen Keck, Kirsten Palz, Laura López Paniagua, Isabel Parkes, Luis Pedro de Castro, Kai Pfeiffer, Marcello Pisu, Barbara Piwowarska, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, Diana Puntar, Mildred Rambaud, Roseline Rannoch and Claudia Zweifel, Jen Ray/ƒƒ, Tonia Reeh, Cornelia Renz, Oliver Ressler, Jorge Rojas, Lisa Ruyter/ƒƒ, Sylvia Sadzinski, Jerry Saltz, Dennis Schep, Eva M. K. Schippers, Inez Schippers, Frauke Schmidt, Tanja Schomaker, Maria Schoof, Joshua Schreier, Kerstin Schröder, Marike Schuurman, Ulrika Segerberg, Philip Shafer, Jason Shulman, Alexander Skora, Hildegard Skowasch, Kathrin Sohn, Juliane Solmsdorf/ƒƒ, Aurin Squire, Eliza Stamps, Marie Steckbauer, Melissa Steckbauer/ƒƒ, Monica Steckbauer, Bettina Steinbrügge, Madeline Stillwelll, Stoll & Wachall, Suwanne CCtv, Ricardo Tbassrobot, Alex Tennigkeit, Mathilde ter Heijne/ƒƒ, Rosa ter Heijne, The Oracle, Samuel Thoma, Tiedeken, Tine Tillmann, Betty Tompkins, Magda Tothova/ƒƒ, Jessica Vaughn, Naomi Vona, Renate Wagner, Klaus Weber, Anna Weilhartner, Annette Weisser, Melanie Jame Wolf (Savage Amusement), Huang Xiaopeng, Ella Ziegler, Paul Zopel, Sherry Zopel, Christina Zurfluh

Organized by Melissa Steckbauer/ƒƒ and Mathilde ter Heijne/ƒƒ

Spatial design developed together with Lorenzo Sandoval.

The Oracle will continue to receive text-based submissions throughout the project: oracleberlin@gmail.com.

Two evenings of performance will accompany the project:
Wednesday, September 25, 19h
Wednesday, October 2, 19h

Photographs by Ben Busch

Supported by

Thanks to Berlin Art Link, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Anita Iannacchione, Monika Karczmarczyk, morgen-berlin.com, Linards Kulless, Ariel Moatti, Ana Sanchez de Vivar, Alexander Skora, Lizzie Stevens, Konstantin Solmsdorf and many more