It is much desired to keep the world in order; to set up systems to control our resources - land, political power, time, relationships - and reduce flagrant extremes. Through protocols that provide for and protect what’s ours, unknowns and contingencies must be reduced to risk to fit into the model. We then rely on these structures as rock solid truth: contracts that will defend our assets and keep us safe. Beyond this illusion, in the gaps of accounting and rationality, Fortuna is rampant - a force of potentiality and chaos that lurks unnoticed. Fortuna exists whether you attend to her or not. She holds wreckage and creation as the gateway to sacred change. Fortuna is nature: she works in cycles, flows like water into the crevices of rocks, and flourishes like a contagion where she’s is nourished. Fortuna does not prescribe nor predict, but she contains all the possibilities of the future.

Fortuna is a recurring experiment in demopoetic emergence. Drawing on the works of Franco Berardi (BIFO), Angela Mitrolpolous’s Contract and contagion, and Allan Kaprow’s “happenings”, we explore possibilities for emergent organization through anti-quantitative experiments, interventions, and embodied conjectures around the bay area.

They are collectively produced, conceived and enacted, starting from a shared concept and collectively understood narrative and set of conditions. On some occasions, it has produced clues regarding new forms of emergent organizing.

Fortuna creates all circumstance as an experiment and does not resist mutation. To understand the way of the uprising, we make space and manufacture time to heal and learn to wield the chaos around us. Through poetry and ritual, we welcome her into the foreground and feed her powers through our own. We practice indecision, reclaim language, honor resilience, and embrace all that emerges. The opposite of chaos is not control, the opposite of chaos is trust. It is only from new words and new ways that new worlds will emerge.