Fix-up #1 by afloat
Book Launch
15.11.2024, 19:30
Rib welcomes a book launch book launch of the first fix-up publication by afloat. A “fix-up” is a format commonly used in Science Fiction. It consists of a series of short stories transformed into one novel. To make the novel coherent new connecting material or interstitial texts are added to the storyline. Also, fixing up often means making improvements or repairs to something. For the first fix-up, a collection of stories, texts, images, and words were put together to trace a picture of our multiple and often conflicted relationships with the notion of the end.
With contributions by Alexandra Goodale, Arvid Schmidt, Beatrice Zerbato, Carolin Hagelberg, Colette Aliman, Emily Sarsam, Giannoulis Orestis, Ginevra Petrozzi, Jacob Sherman, Jennifer Carniel, Joachim Schoones, Juana Salcedo, Kaitlyn D. Hamilton, Kirsten Spruit, Lisa Maule, Lydia Miligkou, Madeleine Stober, Marra Scherrier, Melissa Aliz, Mila Broomberg, Naomi Credé, Saoirse Wall, Tiiu Meiner.
afloat is a publishing platform to imagine the end otherwise. They explore the boundaries of climate catastrophe, storytelling, survivalism and worldmaking. Co-led by Anna Bierler and María Mazzanti, afloat creates publications, leads workshops, and develops protocols for compost-writing, interdependent texts and wet-reading tools. They believe these methodologies allow us to stay attuned to the planetary crisis from a space of vulnerability and empathy while reconfiguring our relationship with the myriad of endings happening around us. By thinking, writing, and feeling the end, they find ways of staying afloat.