BLOOD STORIES is a series of shows by mala voadora. For each new edition, an artist from a different part of the world joins one of us, and this pairing compares their respective genetic profiles. BLOOD STORIES shows that we are all part of the history of the whole world and that the DNA of each one of us, in its singularity, is just another combination of the same genetic mass, within an infinity of such combinations. In our bodies, we condense the memories of millions of individuals from different places and times. We are part of the matter of the world.

In LIECHTENSTEIN BLOOD STORIES, Jorge Andrade teams up with Christiani Wetter. Like all the shows in the series, the project is based on a comparison of the genetic profiles of Andrade and Wetter. They will try to understand how their family histories may have crossed paths in the past: in which journeys, in which wars, in which adventures, in which transnational love stories. But in order to understand their stories, they will also turn to the Tarot. The Tarot can be seen as having something to do with the spirit of BLOOD STORIES, especially if we understand it in the same way as the psychologist Carl Jung. The various figures in the Tarot are archetypes: they synthesise a set of ancestral images that are found in our collective memory and remain rooted in our individual unconscious. In a structuralist way, we can consider these figures to be a common denominator in many cultures and, to that extent, tend to be ‘universal’. Our fears, desires and preponderances of character can thus be identified with the Tarot figures, which in turn can be combined into conjunctures. In this sense, Andrade and Wetter can use them as a tool for researching their pasts.

The Tarot opens up yet another possibility: an approach to divinatory techniques through the cards. BLOOD STORIES will thus not be limited to the past, but can be projected into the future. If the fictions suggested by science (genetics) are fictionalised in the displacement to the performative context we propose, the fiction could thus have a speculative continuity, towards the future.