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The Fortune Teller
04.05.2022
Collage by Yasmine d’O.Bergen Assembly, our convener Saâdane Afif, and executive editor Yasmine d’O. are pleased to publish the fourth issue of Side Magazine which gives shape to the figure of the Fortune Teller.
Divine Fortune Teller, what do the cards say today? Won’t you fill the void of our hypothetical futures?
Professor Alain Schnapp’s abyssal knowledge of ruins was called upon to offer an unmissable forecast. The message delivered by the oracle Franco “Bifo” Berardi at the temple of Apollo in Delphi to the students of the Dirty Art Department (Amsterdam) is transcribed. Good fortune often flows from the outsider; Aage Borchgrevink recounts how the geologist Farouk al Kasim, an Iraqi immigrant, helped establish the Norwegian oil industry. The reproduction of selected pages from Verena Dengler’s diaries offer the possibility that the voices of all ages who wrote them cast spells on her future as an artist. Sébastien Wit reveals the nuances that inhabit chance by recalling two famous artistic disputes. Could the bookseller be a kind of fortune teller? This is the question asked to siddhartha lokanandi and Theresa Clasen. Concluding with the sounds of the Saami drums, Fredrik Prost tells us stories about this divinatory instrument.
Executive Editor: Yasmine d’O.
Chief Editor: Louisa Elderton
Associate Editor: Jonas von Lenthe
Concept: Saâdane Afif
Editorial Coordinator: Alix Chambaud
Research Assistant: Eirini Fountedaki
Translator: Nina Kettiger
Design: Neue Gestaltung, Berlin
The editorial committee for The Fortune Teller is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Eirini Fountedaki, Ingrid Haug Erstad, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Pit Stenkhoff, and Kirsten Wandschneider.
Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen and the Arts Council of Norway for supporting this project.
Side Magazine is published by Wirklichkeit Books.
Order your copy:
Within Norway, or elsewhere, Wirklichkeitbooks.com.
Bergen Assembly 2022
Exhibition: 8.9. — 6.11.2022
Opening Days: 8.9. — 11.9.2022
