Dr. Falke’s Oraculum

“Dr. Falke's Oraculum” continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. During these journeys to such far-flung places as the coastal cliffs of Ireland, the remote island of Fogo off the coast of Newfoundland, the sandy wastes of Cape Cod, and the muddy, muddy banks of the swollen Delaware, the artists considered the circular structure of time and our attempts to make sense of the present by projecting our minds into the future, then mapped these various methods of prognostication onto the distant landscapes in which they sojourned. The results of these meditations were then transcribed onto the images of the Truppe's performances to produce a sort of personal Oraculum. As a result, this volume does not purport to be an instruction manual so much as a mindset that one might adopt while attempting to think about Augury.