Do you want a treat?
Introducing RADICAL PETS, a new work of experimental fiction commissioned by SAN SERRIFFE.
RADICAL PETS is an audio-novel co-authored by seven writers — NADIA DE VRIES, HABIB WILLIAM KHERBEK, DAISY LAFARGE, ELVIA WILK, TAYLOR LE MELLE, BECKET MWN, and MIA YOU — all of whom worked without conferring with each other, knowing only “the story so far” before beginning their chapters.
This approach was conceived in loose homage to L’HOMME QUI A PERDU SON SQUELETTE (1939), a collaborative novel written using the surrealist “exquisite corpse” technique, and reflects an interest in some questions around bodily proximity, interdependence and deviance that have lingered in the long shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The resulting “cojoined” narrative mixes new pleasures and old tricks. It’s a tale of a search for autonomy and affection that also knows how to do danger and disaster — and how to fetch humour from the everyday. It starts with a confession and ends with. . . well, that’s a surprise! Not even the authors (bar one) know how their spliced story plays out.
RADICAL PETS is narrated by LIMO HAIR and features theme music by RUUTU POISS.
Chapters will be released weekly via the San Serriffe website until the novel has fully unfolded and will then be available on other audio platforms.
Editing input from Will Pollard
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Studio Haring
Graphic design by Elisabeth Klement
This project was made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund