An Oracle of the Real

An Oracle of the Real

Oracles are usually asked to speak about the future. This one refuses.

Drawing on an oral archive developed through her ongoing project School of Magical Politics, Eszter Némethi has been working with stories gathered in conversations with artists, pedagogues, activists and social scientists across Europe. Listening deeply to these voices, she has summoned an Oracle.

This Oracle was trained as a tudós somewhere in the underworlds of the Carpathian Basin. Wry, pragmatic and equipped with a troublesome memory-cloak, she is compelled to speak not of what will come, but of the fragmented realities of our present.

The Oracle activates the archive by becoming it. Through short one-to-one consultations questions brought or discovered together open a space where embodied memory and listening become tools of political imagination.

Part performance, part conversation, part ritual encounter, the work explores how we might remake reality together through speech and attention.