* Focus // Compost Reader II

Reading and Conversation at SAFI FAYE STAGE (HKW)

Composting blends us — humans, beings, technologies, and words — into an interconnected planetary material. Focusing on this idea of composting Catalina Imizcoz, director of Cthulhu Books, and curator and researcher María Morata, will present "Compost Reader II," published in November 2024 by Cthulhu Books.

"Compost Reader" is a series that gathers contributions by collaborators that have participated in recent activities at the Institute for Postnatural Studies. The first volume in the series revolves around the loose topic of soil and earth, and explores ways of composting knowledge and collective learning processes. The latest volume, presented here, is about water, the flow of deep reading practices, and the fluidity of identity and queer ways of existence.

Catalina Imizcoz will introduce the series and speak about the editorial process guiding these publications. María Morata, alongside Lorenzo Galgó, contributed the epistolary essay "On the Banks of the Crip Swamp" to "Compost Reader II." She will be reading excerpts of this text, which proposes the lens of Crip theory to think about our relationship to landscape.

"Compost Reader II" features texts by: Filipa Ramos, María Morata and Lorenzo Galgó, Mare Skousen, Natasha Thembiso Ruvona, Zavhary Schoenhut, Pauline Ruffiot, alfonso borragán, Valeria Mata and Maxime Dossin, Esther Gatón, Cristóbal Olaya Meza, Paloma Contreras Lomas