Can fiction be an act of creation and transformation?
How does our engagement with the world relate to our imaginative capacities?

The wild laboratory Désorceler la finance invites us to reflect collectively on the power of fiction to bolster a culture of collective commons, at the intersection of politics, witchcraft and the arts. Taking the form of participatory cartomancy, “Fictions that change the world” acts as a conversational tool: each of the cards drawn is subject to the reading and interpretation of its audience.

In the spaces of the CA$H exhibition at Art et Marges Museum, participants are invited to sit around a table and connect their energies. A master of ceremonies presents and reveals the cards: the discussion begins, building and orienting itself as new cards are added. At the end of this sixty-minute exchange, the participants work together to formulate a magical act. A shared gesture, conjuration or incantation, to regain the power to act and reopen their horizons.

Re-opening Horizons is a series of three decks of cards which can be drawn from: Deregulation of Financial Markets, (Dérèglement du jeu de la finance), Abandonment of Tax Havens (Quitter les paradis fiscaux), and Fictions that change the world (Des fictions qui changent le monde). Each deck has its own objective, but the way in which the cards are drawn is fixed.

Between 7 and 10 people sit around a table (preferably round), in a candlelit room, the fumes of incense and Palo Santo burning in the background, and light percussive music playing in the background. A master of ceremonies presents the cards and reveals them one after the other. As new cards are added to the conversation, the discussion builds, shifts, and becomes finer and sharper. At the end of the 30-45 minutes of dialogue, as if regaining power over their horizon, the participants create, write and pronounce an incantatory or conjuring formula.