STORYTELLING FOR THE APOCALYPSE - CREATING COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES OF SURVIVAL
by Malu Blume and İpek Hamzaoğlu
The long-term project GOSSIPOLOGY focuses on feminist speculative fiction storytelling. The goal of the project is to develop a tool box that serves to tell utopian/dystopian stories that echoe site-specific local myths, gossip and histories.
During our workshops we use directed writing exercises in order to merge individual imagination into collective mythologies that reflect experiences of resistance and survival. GOSSIPOLOGY aims to explore the use of emancipatory narratives as a tool of political action from the margins. We believe in the transformative potentials of collective dreaming of our past(s) and possible futures. Furthermore we investigate gossip as a methodology of queer-feminist counter discourse and knowledge-production.