SPILL Performance
Performance art interpretation of tarot by contemporary makers, photographers, and models.
creator unknown · 2009
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The record
“Remade here by contemporary performance makers, the SPILL tarot is a maverick interpretation of a classic divination tool.” Many hands made the SPILL Performance Tarot deck. Created as a kind of performance art; a union between the photographer, twenty-two conceptual creators, and models, it’s a 78-card collaborative set made as part of the SPILL Festival of Performance. The Festival is an “artist-led programme of experimental theatre, live art and performance”, which ran from 2nd – 26th April 2009 in London, England. The major arcana images are a real collaboration between the photographer, Manuel Vason, and performance artists, whose practices span “visual art, performance, boy work, dance, theatre, music, philosophy, academia, cultural activism and much more.” As described by the festival director, their original ideas and concepts were “shaped, challenged, shifted (and even some cases brilliantly sabotaged) by Manuel – in order to push the possibilities of each image as far as was possible within the time and resources available.” The photographic scenes of the major arcana are the core of the deck. The High Priestess is excellent. An invisible woman (all that can be seen is h
The cards
