All fiction is about the real and all real is about the fiction.


What does ‘real’ even mean? How do you start to unravel the possibilities of the real.


Fabulation is oriented towards the invention of futures, of becomings, rather than towards the memories of the past

“To my senses”, wrote the philosopher Immanuel Kant, the earth appears as ‘a flat surface, with a circular horizon.’ This surface, for Kant, lies at the very foundation of human experience: it is “the stage on which the play of our skills proceeds [and] the ground on which our knowledge is acquired and applied”. Everything that exists and that might form the object of our perception is placed upon this surface, rather as properties and scenery might be set upon the stage of a theatre.’

Tim Ingold, Lines: 37

Haraway’s conception of play is ‘the most powerful and diverse activity for rearranging old things and proposing new things, new patterns of feeling and action, and for crafting safe enough ways to tangle with each other in conflict and collaboration.’

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: 150

I crave fictions, outlandish and radical. Utopian visions of a world that we might one day inhabit - I don’t know why, what this tug in my gut is telling me. Perhaps it’s because today feels stranger than fiction and every other day that passes drowns in further delusions perpetuated by a stubborn stillness. A room I can’t leave. A mind I can’t move from. Perhaps it’s a way of distancing myself from this, a distance fostered by closeness. If I am reading it from a book right here, maybe the outside just there, feels further. Maybe spinning the stories of the present into fabrications of a future makes them taste a little sweeter. Is a line of text a trace I can follow to escape it? Maybe.

Fabulation experiments with subject matter, form, style, temporal sequence, and fusions of the everyday, fantastic, mythical, and nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic. It is oriented towards the invention of futures, of becomings, rather than towards the memories of the past.