CORPORACULAR
Oracle, art, invented methodology
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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2025.12.10789Abstract
This article presents part of a theoretical and practical investigation into the oracular in artistic processes, carried out since 2016. The research is driven by the following questions: what are oracles? What are the possible connections between oracles and visual arts? What are the relationships between oracles and cartography? How to invent oracles? The article provides a very brief mythological and historical contextualization, provocations, hypotheses, and discusses the intertwining between my oracular and artistic practices through Corporacular work. Talking about oracles is assuming belief systems and ways of reading worlds, visible and invisible, in different cultures, over time. Traditionally they involve randomization systems, rituals, elaboration of questions, operations with signs, and creation of narratives that seek to contemplate the questions, uncertainties, pains and anxieties of those who consult them. In common sense, the word oracle means the prediction, the person who makes the prediction, the ritual or place where it is carried out, however it is important to emphasize that the focus of the research is not the oracle as a prediction of the future, but rather as a system of language and methodology that allows approaches to the arts. This study proposes oracular as a verb, therefore as an action and state of the body. When analyzing the possibilities of the oracular verb, others are found such as investigating, traveling, imagining, mapping and fictionalizing. Corporacular is also proposed as a verb in a rite in which Tarot cards, objects brought by the participating person and their body are read and written as an oracle. Corporacular is a verb, name of the rite, cartographic process, invented methodology and machinery activated by the participation of the other. It is an aesthetic experience that involves reading, writing, narration, and the production of thoughts about poetic health.
Keywords: Art and narrative; Invented methodology; Oracle.
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