Exhibitions & Installations

In the middle of everything, attendees are drawn to an unexpected oracle. It calls to them because its story has chosen them: one that’s meant to be shared with them at this exact time, in this exact place.

Site-Specific Installations

Interactive and experiential storytelling art installations with site-specific oracles curated from the Found Oracles library.

These intuitive and collective stories choose their recipients, creating a personally reflective moment within our common human experience to remind us of our connections to ourselves, each other, and the world around us.

Stories that choose you.

Each oracle story chooses its recipients through a natural kind of alchemy:

An object makes someone smile, so they interact with it. In the space that opens, a small story appears, one that invites attendees to see themselves more clearly, celebrate their existence, and reflect on the good fortune that it is to be connected with themselves, each other, the place around them, and all that is.

In each interactive and experiential exhibit concept, participants select the oracle that calls to them, either because of its image, title, or the object it represents. The oracle they select has a story for them: one that has chosen them because it relates to their own life and story somehow right then, right there.

Participants receive their story via QR code, paper slip, or special envelope. They may choose to share their stories with those around them or keep it to themselves. The decision is theirs alone, for some messages are more personally reflective than others, but all are stories about human existence that are, at once, collectively experience and deeply individual.

Concept: The Oracle Bar of Good Fortune

Curated, site-specific oracle cards from the Found Oracles library are spread out in groups, clusters, and seemingly random arrangements on cosmically designed tables.

As participants walk by, they select the card that calls to them based on its image, its title, or the object it represents. That card has the story meant for them, the one that has chosen them because it connects with their own story and life somehow that day, in that time and space.

Participants take their oracle story card with them as a reminder of their experience at the venue, and as a memento of the good fortune that is already theirs - simply because they are themselves.

The cards are professionally printed by the artist’s card manufacturing partner, on playing card core with custom card coating.

Larger Scale and Permanent Placement Concepts

Large-scale and more permanent concepts are proposed on a custom, site-specific basis to individual partners and venues. These concepts include oracle story exhibitions involving light, machine dispensers, and other multimedia art objects. Concepts are also available for outdoor public art placements of the oracles and their stories. Reach out if you’re intrigued by the oracles and interested in what installation could like like for your site or venue: hello@foundoracles.com.

The Oracles, In Real Life

These in-person, site-specific installations bring the Found Oracles online interactive project into the 3D world with concepts that expand the oracles’ storytelling experience into tangible form, in physical space. 

You can read the project documentation and artist statement for Found Oracles at the Bailey Sends Word Story Studio site, via the button below.

Send An Inquiry

For questions, partnerships, and venue discussions regarding bringing the oracles into the 3D, contact hello@foundoracles.com or use the contact button below.