I saw this post and thought of Elon and all the tech-bro would-be-kings of the next frontier, spending all the wealth they’ve harvested from environmental death here on earth on big little boy rockets zoom-zoom-zooming them away from us whining plebs to all the new, empty planets they’d like to fuck…
I have a pamphlet coming out on 20th February with The Braag. It’s called Offworld and it’s full of weird little sci-fi flash fic poems that came out of a 2019 residency at MIMA.
All the titles are deliberate mistranslations of Portuguese exhibition and artwork titles I found in the archive folder for Brazilian artist Brigida Baltar, whose large photographic piece Cloud Collecting is in the Middlesbrough Collection. From this starting point, I prompted myself to create writing that embraced experimentation and narrative – a story of sorts emerged, about a girl and her friend Sai, and how they ended up drifting through the dustbowl dregs of a collapsing galactic empire, witnessing the slow degradation of endeavour and intention from utopian to authoritarian…
Wherever we go, there we are.
It should be available for pre-order soon, and there will be a launch at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle on 20th February, followed I hope by a Teesside launch, and online launch, and a bunch of readings around the country if I can get my shit together. I’ll keep you posted.
Kirsten Luckins 