Parse Journal (Jun 2023)
The Sensing Salon
Abstract
The text is a written rendering (heavily edited transcription) of the Sensing Salon held in Stockholm, on February 3, 2023, for the question: How to engage citational practices that support collaboration/make space within the institutional context? This collective reading is divided into three parts: (I) a Tarot reading done by the two of us, which includes explanations for the meanings of the cards, the positions, etc.; (II) a collaborative reading, which took the form of a free-flowing conversation, involving many if not most of those present; and (III) we close this documentation of the session with a reading of a Celtic Cross for one of the cards in the first spread, using a preliminary version of a deck we are in the process of developing, the Echo Tarot Deck*. The layering of readings allows for the complexity and nuance the question for this reading demands. As we zoom in with this reading, a glimpse of another image of citational practices appears. *The Echo Deck was inspired by the poems of African American-Japanese American poet Ai Ogawa. A provisional version of deck, with all the cards still blank, was first used in readings during our residency at Amant in New York, in 2022.
