As a way to celebrate the day of the squirrels this year, I have made the relevant chapter of the book available to read online. Read it here.
On the last day of may, squirrels gather and descend on Berlin, sabotaging nearly all of the city’s electrical infrastructure and causing a general blackout : no power, no internet. Chaos ensues. Cults emerge. Memes are shared. A group of friends drifts through the riots.
In 2022, As part of a performance ending in a public reading of the chapter, the in-progress text was confronted to printed matter from the world of the novel, occupying public and exhibition spaces; and custom-made memes were shared online.
All this extra-textual matter, incorporated within the fiction, serves to reinforce world building and provides a larger context for the written extract of the novel, that then becomes part of a dynamic, interlinked whole.
Posters celebrate the joyful chaos of the day of the squirrels, and flyers, coming from a more extreme fringe of the followers of the squirrels, call for outright revolution. Both feature the recurring slogan and leitmotiv: NO TECH NO COPS NO GODS NO BLISS.
- Poster designed by Chloé Delchini and Amélie Poitevin.
- Flyers designed by Marius Castelle.
- Memes by goplayinthe.yard