Event, CRAVE, during Wild Summer of Art, BRUTUS, 2025
"CRAVE" was a takeover-event held at Brutus as part of Wild Summer of Art, structured as an experiment in edible publishing and collective gathering. The event explored rites of passage, mourning, celebration, ritual, and transition through the act of eating as a reading practice. Stories were baked into cakes and words printed onto napkins. Throughout the evening, participants moved between listening, sharing, and eating, collapsing the distance between publishing and gathering. The event drew on themes of ending and transition, using the ritual of the shared meal as a framework for collective reflection. By the close of the evening, nothing remained but crumbs.
Publication, Fix-up #1: Endings
first edition
concept, editing, design by afloat
printed in amsterdam Terry Bleu
October 2024
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
Open Call: Fix-up #1: Endings
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 as well as making arrangements to set something to function in a certain direction.
For the first fix-up published by afloat we are seeking for submissions of texts, images, scans, screenshots, or any other publishable material that delves into the concept of endings. Your stories and fragments will be woven together in a new narrative. Send us texts from 2 to a maximum of 500 words. We will fix them up and publish them in a printed publication.
Please send your endings, dessert recipes, breakup text messages, the last pages of your diary, images of your fossil collection, the last story you wrote, or the expiration date of all your skincare to earthafloat@gmail.com before July 1st.
The end is always the beginning of something else.