A GAME OF TAROT: THE UNOPPRESSIVE GAME
All in the universe is connected, many would say. “A Game of Tarot: the Unoppressive Game” is a selection of 10 cards from the 78 handmade tarot cards made by me as part of the Art-In-Buildings Time Equities Inc. W10th Street Window in 2015. Today you can also see a limited edition printed card deck, housed in a box and info booklet printed and folded on origami paper, as well as individual digital photo prints and postcards of six cards displayed in the bookstore next to a neon “Psychic Reader” sign, pleasantly enrobed in a royal purple environment. This exhibition is a way to understand those synchronistic encounters that weave into our lives and how and if to attribute meaning to them or simply toss it in the air.
After living through the unexpected stagnation triggered by the pandemic, the close call of the Presidential election, the deepening mistrust between government and the people, I was ready to believe in magic. In this deck of cards, I was looking to re-imagine the hierarchy and suits in the card deck to fit the values of our 21st century society. It asks, who do you think are the knights and suits of today? The knight having mysteriously disappeared from today’s reduced face card family. One of the most satisfying things in life is to surrender to chance, to coincidence, and to feel as if an encounter, or an event has occurred in one’s life as if by absurd magic—what are the chances that a seemingly random encounter is meaningful and can relate to other parts of your life? How many times do you end up in the same subway car as a long lost friend or that you cross someone on a street corner far away from your usual paths? One wonders if it is coincidence or synchronicity.
A Game of Tarot: The Unoppressive Game
Exhibition at the Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore
June 1, 2021 - September 13, 2021
34 Carmine Street, New York, NY, 10014
A Game of Tarot: A Performance
Events:
A Game of Tarot Performance Saturday October 16, 2021 | 12pm, 12:30pm, 1pm | PRESS RELEASE
An absurd five person card playing performance using Amanda Millet-Sorsa’s tarot cards while reciting “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake and directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring.
The dialogue between the card players occurs through the verses of William Blake’s poem where the dynamics and story between the players unravels while playing a game of cards, structured around the French game of tarot. The cards are an original deck completely re-imagined by Amanda Millet-Sorsa and currently on exhibition at the bookstore.
Postcard Writing, Thursday July 1st, 2021 | 5pm-9pm
Tarot Card Reading w/Daniel Larkin, Sunday July 11, 2021 | 4-6pm