Documenta 0: The Broadsheet 

A theatrical game and archive based on the history of
Caliban and the Witch (Silvia Federici); Discipline and Punish (Micheal Foucault), using thinking and system of game, participatory performance, and editorial design method.



Concept:
           introduction
           structure of game
           story
           behind the story



Elements and Design:
           game board and visuals
           online archive


Chacters Overview
           Merchant
           Blacksmith
           Herbalist
           Brewer
           Psychic


    


    Psychic



    Public information:
    People come to you to predict their fate, and you make protective charm for them. You have the God's eye.


    Private information:
    Gather as much information as you can. Choose a person you want to help. You can match the truth and also ask questions at the market.  What is your role with the ability you have to foresee more hidden clues? Do you think you are responsible for finding truth?


    Ability: (choose from two)
    Know all the false clues.
    Only need 3 clues pool to Match truth, you can also choose to use 3 clues to ask a question.


    Behind the character:
    Lives on the social marginseasily exploited when uncertainty spreads.


    High-level question:
    Under oppressive power structures, where people are urgent to find out a person to blame on, how can one hold on to justice, and what does ‘absolute justice’ mean?



    Helen Duncan (1897-1956)
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    Spiritualist
    The last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735
    Press cutting from the Helen Duncan witchcraft case
    HO 144/22172
    In 1926, she developed from clairvoyant to physical medium by offering séances in which she claimed to be able to permit the spirits of recently deceased persons to materialise, by emitting ectoplasm (In spiritualism, ectoplasm is a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums) from her mouth.

    She conducted séances where she claimed to summon spirits, produce ectoplasm, and communicate with the dead.  

    During WWII, in 1942 during a séance, she stated that the battleship HMS Barham had been sunk.

    This information was secret at the time, known only to the families of the dead and the military.

    MI5 and the Admiralty feared she might be obtaining or spreading military intelligence.

    Sentenced to nine months in prison




    Helen x Pong