The Fortune Teller
You’ve got to help me find an end to the nightmare
’Cause I can’t stand this pain and the curse of time
Somewhere in your eyes
I’ll find the answer
Give me the truth I’ve been looking for
Be my guiding light, I’ll take my chances
Turn the card, seal my fate, close the door
—Deep Purple
The Fortune Teller, in order of appearance, is the fourth character encountered in Yasmine’s quest for the Heptahedron.
The Fortune Teller knows the impact her predictions will have on the life of the trembling figure seated in front of her. Cards in hand, one eye fixed on this person, the Fortune Teller carefully gauges her words, and says, “I too am worried about the future; I too struggle with the troubled present; I too am confronted with an evanescent past. Who will help to ease my mind?”
When she is not in the grip of self-doubt, the Fortune Teller helps us to organise reality, to make it ours. Revealing what is ignored or hidden, she transforms a patchwork of diverse perceptions into an organised fabric, united in space and, perhaps most importantly, in time, circumscribing the domain of anxiety. Just like an artist, or perhaps even a curator, the Fortune Tellers delimit a coherent but ephemeral image of the world so that we might understand its fate—our fate. Does the Fortune Teller not have the power to raise everything and anything? Just like a powerful pump, does she not have within that body of divination a great pipe that goes down to the bowels of things, into the deep layers, to suck up and bring forth in giant sprays what was held dormant and flat under the ground? What was there, but not seen, longing to feel the sun?
To bring the Fortune Teller to life, and to soothe our souls, this exhibition presents the divinatory works of Jessika Kharzik, Miriam Stoney, and Alvaro Urbano.
Rendez-vous in Østre Skostredet at Østre, Northing Space, and an old, abandoned wooden house, and to find out more about what goes on in the head of this character, read Side Magazine: The Fortune Teller.
—Yasmine d’O.
Artists
Jessika Khazrik →
Miriam Stoney →
Alvaro Urbano →
Venue
Northing Space
Østre Skostredet 10
5017 Bergen
An Old Wooden House
Østre Skostredet 8
5017 Bergen
Østre
House for Sound Art and
Electronic Music
Østre Skostredet 3
5017 Bergen
Upcoming events
Exhibition
Side Venues
Exhibitions
Side venues
Date
Time
Event
Venue
Sep 9, Friday
21:15–02:45
The Fortune Teller
ATAMATA I by Jessika Khazrik w/ காவடி, Aïsha Devi, Grinderteeth, Jimmy Blue Star, MAWADa
Amplifying an urgent search for collective transcendence and transformational infrastructure, ATAMATA brings together a spectral club exhibition with a 4-day South and East-oriented music and performance club program full of apparitions, epiphanic intermissions and incomputable assemblies. Concocted by artist, DJ, technologist and educatress Jessika Khazrik with live performances by friends and allies, the techno rave performance series and exhibition re-addresses club spaces as templar and serendipitous places of techno-political congregation and collective attunement with an ability to re-create and host different times and desires into the present. Through revisiting the unifying and anti-militarist history of techno in the past, present and future tenses and the potential of club spaces as social spaces of transclusive ritual, communal solace and serendipitous bonding, ATAMATA attempts to playfully delve into the links between the collectivity through anonymity attained in clubs and that experienced in spaces dedicated to collective strategy, solidarity and study.
Doors: 20:30 (ID: 18)
Tickets: Kr 150
Purchased tickets can not be refunded.
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Østre
Sep 10, Saturday
20:15–02:45
The Fortune Teller
ATAMATA II by Jessika Khazrik w/ Hexorcismos, Matriark, Marwa Belhaj Youssef, Safa, Via App ++
Amplifying an urgent search for collective transcendence and transformational infrastructure, ATAMATA brings together a spectral club exhibition with a 4-day South and East-oriented music and performance club program full of apparitions, epiphanic intermissions and incomputable assemblies.
Concocted by artist, DJ, technologist and educatress Jessika Khazrik with live performances by friends and allies, the techno rave performance series and exhibition re-addresses club spaces as templar and serendipitous places of techno-political congregation and collective attunement with an ability to re-create and host different times and desires into the present.
Through revisiting the unifying and anti-militarist history of techno in the past, present and future tenses and the potential of club spaces as social spaces of transclusive ritual, communal solace and serendipitous bonding, ATAMATA attempts to playfully delve into the links between the collectivity through anonymity attained in clubs and that experienced in spaces dedicated to collective strategy, solidarity and study.
Doors: 19:30 (ID: 18)
Tickets: Kr 150
Purchased tickets can not be refunded.
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Østre
This is an exhibition walk with Carol Stampone for the Fortuneteller. We will look at the three different artistic perspectives, located at Northing, Østre and Østre Skostredet 8.
Carol Stampone is a writer and philosopher, based in Bergen.
For this exhibition walk, Carol will facilitate some writing exercises as a way to make entry points to the different artworks. Carol will have a particular focus on Alvaro Urbano’s shadow installation at Østre Skostredet 8.
The exhibition walk will be held in English. This event is free of charge and open for everyone.
We will start the event at Bergen Assembly’s office.
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Østre
Amplifying an urgent search for collective transcendence and transformational infrastructure, ATAMATA brings together a spectral club exhibition with a 4-day South and East-oriented music and performance club program full of apparitions, epiphanic intermissions and incomputable assemblies. Concocted by artist, DJ, technologist and educatress Jessika Khazrik with live performances by friends and allies, the techno rave performance series and exhibition re-addresses club spaces as templar and serendipitous places of techno-political congregation and collective atunement with an ability to re-create and host different times and desires into the present.
Through revisiting the unifying and anti-militarist history of techno in the past, present and future tenses and the potential of club spaces as social spaces of transclusive ritual, communal solace and serendipitous bonding, ATAMATA attempts to playfully delve into the links between the collectivity through anonymity attained in clubs and that experienced in spaces dedicated to collective strategy, solidarity and study.
❦ LINE UP — ATAMATA III ❦
☙ Ixa
☙ Johanna Hedva
☙ Pisitakun (live)
☙ Shaddah Tuum (live)
☙ Zuhour (dj-set)
☙ MAWADa (dj-set)
Doors: 20:30 (ID: 18)
Concert-program starts at 21:00 sharp.
Tickets: Kr 150
Purchased tickets can not be refunded.
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Østre
We will explore the Fortune Teller together aided by the words of Miriam Stoney’s Debt Verses, (one of the artistic projects connected to the character of the Fortune Teller,) using selected lines from Stoney’s book as an entry point to the exhibitions.
Ben Wenhou Yu, co-founder of Northing, will also give an introduction to the text publication.
The exhibition walk will be held in Norwegian.
This event will take place at Northing Space.
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Northing Space
Amplifying an urgent search for collective transcendence and transformational infrastructure, ATAMATA brings together a spectral club exhibition with a 4-day South and East-oriented music and performance club program full of apparitions, epiphanic intermissions and incomputable assemblies. Concocted by artist, DJ, technologist and educatress Jessika Khazrik with live performances by friends and allies, the techno rave performance series and exhibition re-addresses club spaces as templar and serendipitous places of techno-political congregation and collective attunement with an ability to re-create and host different times and desires into the present. Through revisiting the unifying and anti-militarist history of techno in the past, present and future tenses and the potential of club spaces as social spaces of transclusive ritual, communal solace and serendipitous bonding, ATAMATA attempts to playfully delve into the links between the collectivity through anonymity attained in clubs and that experienced in spaces dedicated to collective strategy, solidarity and study.
❦ LINE UP of ATAMATA IV ❦
☙ Absent Intelligence
☙ Ixa
☙ Julmud
☙ Matriark
☙ Mattin
☙ Nancy Mounir
Doors: 20:30 (ID: 18)
Concert-program starts at 21:00 sharp.
Tickets: Kr 150
Purchased tickets can not be refunded.
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Østre
Oct 23, Sunday
12:00–14:00
The Fortune Teller
Family Workshop: Think and make a book like an artist
In an old wooden house in Østre Skostredet 8, you can find the art project The Great Ruins of Saturn by Alvaro Urbano.
This is an exciting room, where the walls are covered by a shadow play of numerous stories.
Inspired by this, Yilei Wang (designer and co-founder of Northing) has prepared a paper cutting workshop.
Yilei Wang (b.1983) is a visual designer, book designer, curator from Shanghai based in Bergen, Norway. She is one of the co-founders and the art director of Northing.
All materials will be supplied.
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Northing Space
Bergen Assembly
Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate 4
5017 Bergen
open 10am–5pm on weekdays
post@bergenassembly.no
www.bergenassembly.com
