*** For 8 weeks, students from XPUB prepared a ritual to perform at the top of Monday morning class. We explored cultural rituals such as the birthday cake and coffee-ground reading, but also more personal rituals such as 'going to sleep' rituals, a personal hard-drive purification, and the creation of worry-dolls.***
*** For 8 weeks, students from XPUB prepared a ritual to perform at the top of Monday morning class. We explored cultural rituals such as the birthday cake and coffee-ground reading, but also more personal rituals such as 'going to sleep' rituals, a personal hard-drive purification, and the creation of worry-dolls.***
### Week 1, January 9th 2023: Tea and Cookies
### Week 1, January 9th 2023: Tea and Cookies
***Performed by... Artemis and Lidia***
***Performed by... Artemis and Lídia***
Artemis and Lidia introduced us to Monday Morning Rituals on the first cold, dark, wintery Monday morning. We shared cookies with tea as a way to open up the semester and get to know each other. The ritual of a hot drink and cookies is well-known around the world as a moment of gathering, peace, gossip, and self-care.
Artemis and Lídia introduced us to Monday Morning Rituals on the first cold, dark, wintery Monday morning. We shared cookies with tea as a way to open up the semester and get to know each other. The ritual of a hot drink and cookies is well-known around the world as a moment of gathering, peace, gossip, and self-care.
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### Week 4, January 30th 2023: Birthday Cake
### Week 4, January 30th 2023: Birthday Cake
***Performed by... Boyana***
***Performed by... Boyana***
To celebrate Agalaia's birthday, Boyana baked a cake (and Ada made jellies). We sat in a circle, gathering around the cake. The person who had their birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to wish them our blessings. After going through a round, we ate together.
To celebrate Agalaia's birthday, Boyana baked a cake and Ada made jellies. We sat in a circle, gathering around the cake. The person who had their birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to wish them our blessings. After going through a round, we ate together.
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"The priestess Ada will start the ritual by playing the ceremonial music on the sacred Spotify. Candles shall be turned on.
"The priestess Ada will start the ritual by playing the ceremonial music on the sacred Spotify. Candles shall be turned on.
Then three human sacrifices will be selected amongst the group through a collective decision.
Then three human sacrifices will be selected amongst the group through a collective decision.
The three sacrificial people will then select three cards from either of the two decks given by the priestess. While they do so, they must think of the special issue.
The three sacrificial people will then select three cards from either of the two decks given by the priestess. While they do so, they must think of the special issue.
The priestess will then interpret the cards and together we shall rejoice in having found out our special issue’s future."
The priestess will then interpret the cards and together we shall rejoice in having found out our Special Issue’s future."
The Fiction Friction cards are made by two wanderers who spent a fair amount of time thinking about healing, witchcraft and (contemporary) witch-hunting, rituals, and Tarot culture. This approach can be seen as a way to create a ritual or a (personal) journey into a collective representation. The cards are carriers of our identities, individual past, collective memory, momentary frictions and fictions. We intended to reclaim the tarot reading ritual and reconsider the relation between the given card interpretation and the figure of the fortuneteller by reversing it. A group of players is invited to explore each card and reimagine its meaning as a collective. We are keen to see how similar or completely different experiences can be shared and new insights learned through each round of exercise. This game serves as a tool that gives to the group the possibility to write together, meet, connect, talk about unspeakable things, share, interpret or even get into conflict. Each card is a starting point, an interface for an opening, a promising healing, and a collective moment.
The Fiction Friction cards are made by two wanderers who spent a fair amount of time thinking about healing, witchcraft and (contemporary) witch-hunting, rituals, and Tarot culture. This approach can be seen as a way to create a ritual or a (personal) journey into a collective representation. The cards are carriers of our identities, individual past, memory, momentary frictions and fictions. We intended to reclaim the tarot reading ritual and reconsider the relation between the given card interpretation and the figure of the fortuneteller by reversing it. A group of players is invited to explore each card and reimagine its meaning as a collective. We are keen to see how similar or completely different experiences can be shared and new insights learned through each round of exercise. This game serves as a tool that gives to the group the possibility to write together, meet, connect, talk about unspeakable things, share, interpret or even get into conflict. Each card is a starting point, an interface for an opening, a promising healing, a collective moment.
Fiction Friction is a tool for (hyper)textual conversations on (via) abstract/symbolic/surrealistic collage cards. We based our collaging on political events that we have experienced or have been part of our memories, mythological figures from our cultures, collective memory moments, literature that has inspired us, musical references, individuals etc. The main components of the game are a deck of illustrated cards, dice with different methods of interpretation, and an empty deck to host the new potential stories created by the players.
Fiction Friction is a tool for (hyper)textual conversations on (via) abstract/symbolic/surrealistic collage cards. We based our collaging on political events that we have experienced or have been part of our memories, mythological figures from our cultures, collective memory moments, literature that has inspired us, musical references, individuals etc. The main components of the game are a deck of illustrated cards, dice with different methods of interpretation, an empty deck to host the new potential stories along with a a deck of questions created by the players.
How to play:
How to play:
The fiction friction game/tool consists of a deck of collage illustrated
-One player picks a card from the illustrated card deck along with a question card and places them
cards that the players can use in three possible ways.
in the middle. The card is the starting point of a collective story.
1\. -One player picks a card from the illustrated card deck and places it
in the middle. The card is the starting point of a collective
(hypertextual) story.
-Everyone takes an empty card.
-Everyone takes an empty card.
-In turns, players throw the dice to indicate the possible methods to
-In turns, players write their own interpretation of the collage card having in mind the revealed question card that works as a navigator for the story. (There is the possibility to use the dice in the process so as to specify the method that a player should use to "write")
write/draw/illustrate about or via the revealed card.
-At the end of the round a small story will be created out of the
-At the end of the round a small story will be created out of the
interpretations of each player.
interpretations of each player.
2\. -Each player picks an illustrated card and an empty card from the deck without revealing the card to others.
-The first player starts with a sentence about their card and leaves the illustrated card upside down in the middle.
-Other players continue with their sentences\' according to the card in their hands.
-The illustrated cards are shuffled and then revealed. Everybody then makes a guess and matches the card with the right sentence.
-The dice can be used to choose a method if preferred.
3\. -One player picks a card and places it in the middle.
-The player who picked the card throws the dice and interprets the card accordingly.
-The other players throw the dice in turns and continue the narrative.
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The SIXX license is a free, copyleft license for rituals, games, books and consolations in any medium, both software and hardware.
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For the purpose of this paper, licensing is understood as responsibilitytowards an audience, towards each other and towards other people who might want to contribute to, use or amplify any work.
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