afloat is a publishing platform to imagine the end otherwise. We 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. We 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, we find ways of staying afloat.*
Anna and Maria, IMG by Matilde Stolfa, 2024
*Staying afloat, floating, suspended, airy, a way of navigating the currents, not drowning