Fire Almanac, issue 2: Pangaea Ultima
Garage Digital will support the publication of the second issue of Fire Almanac, which will retain its unusual form, this time focusing on contemporary anthropological and ancient mythological perspectives on humans as creatures in perpetual transformation, creatures through which the universe recognizes and knows itself via poetry, music, and visual media.
The geopoetic image chosen by the editorial group is of Pangaea Ultima, a hypothetical supercontinent, which, scientists predict, might form through the merger all the continents that exist today. They present the land, with its deserts, jungles, and mountains, as a space of articulated text and articulated visual environments, and the ocean as waves of vague visions and musical worlds.
This ocean may include islands of spontaneously formed theories and artworks, which are independent of existing and known concepts, being imaginary and parallel to them.
The editors aim to create a virtual environment, or a super continent, where a user, or an enchanted wanderer, will be able to interact with their ambivalent coexistence within one space, instead of with a structured and rigid material of texts and works; an experience similar to that of a child in an interactive quest, where they can choose what to take with them on their intellectual and aesthetic journey.
Авторы
Dmitry Gerchikov
(b. 1996, Smolensk) is a poet and artist. He has published his work in the magazines [Translit], Nosorog, TextOnly, and Greza, among others and won an Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize Special Mention in 2016. He is the author of the poetry books Make Poetry Great Again ([Translit], 2018) and The Birthday of Time (cae / su / ra, 2021). He lives and works in Moscow.
Ekaterina Zakharkiv
(b. 1990, Magadan) is a literary and executive editor (projects include F-pismo, Greza), co-founder and co-editor of Fire Almanac, a contemporary poetry scholar, and translator. She is a doctoral student and employee at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Her poetry has been published in the magazines Zerkalo, Nosorog, F-pismo, Lana Turner, and Punctum, among others. She was the winner of Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize in 2016 and is the author of the book Felicity Conditions (AGRO-RISK, 2017). She lives and works in Moscow.
Ivan Kurbakov
(b. 1990) is an author, film director, and sound and video artist. He studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and graduated in Film Directing from Moscow School of New Cinema. He has published poetry and essays in the magazine [Translit] and on the online platforms syg.ma and polutona. He is the author of the poetry books The Path Sings (AGRO-RISK, 2019) and Gardens and Lightning (vsegonichego, 2020) and a co-founder and co-editor of Fire Almanac. He lives and works in Moscow.
Maksim Ilyukhin
(b. 1975, Zelenograd) is a Russian artist and performer, a member of the art group Art Business Consulting, and the manager of ABC Gallery and Laboratory. He is a lecturer at the British Higher School of Art & Design. He lives and works in Moscow.