Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty by Ingrid Vranken (BE) and Cat Jones is an instructional artwork that blends practices of spell work with instruments of navigation and the psychology of way-finding to create speculative objects for routing/rooting through uncertain times.

Comprising an essay, toolkit, field notes, and a series of workshops and (in development) a limited edition box kit, the project embodies a playfulness that incorporates gravitas and humour, expertise and ineptitude, and ultimately a sense of imaginative agency.  

Cat and Ingrid bring together their knowledge and practices in ethnobotany, chemical and metaphysical processes, hauntology, sensory, participatory art.

Commissioned by fo.am for their anarchiving project (online and print publications forthcoming 2023).

Part 1 of Spell Kit for Navigating Uncertainty is online now via the wabisabi route. More to come soon.

Appearances

1 – 3 September 2023 Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix

Supporters

Commissioned by fo.am. Developed with support from Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix and coming to Project 24, 2nd Space, Sunshine Coast Council in 2024.