Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic language, Abi Palmer considers the politics of space, iridescent queerness, and shapeshifting viscous 'slug time.' In the face of a potential apocalypse, Slugs: A Manifesto envisions a future where humanity becomes just a little more sluglike. The work will be developed alongside Palmer's debut exhibition, Slime Mother at Chapter, Cardiff (July 2024)..

About the Author
Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures & ecological landscapes. Works include film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel, 2023); book Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins, 2020); and interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, Somerset House, Frieze Corridor and Venice Biennale.

Reviews
Abi Palmer has sliced something so delicate and unwieldy into perfectly matched halves and it is like an actual real genuine magic trick. The best kind of fiction, the best kind of art - the kind that makes you blink in surprise at the world around you, not quite sure what's real and what's going on, but also: you love it.
- Zarina Muhammad, The White Pube

All hail Abi Palmer's Slugs: A Manifesto, at once an addictive art world gossip column, a crip phenomenology, and a glistening, utopian theory of gender, queerness and desire. From these sticky trails the slug emerges as a slippery figure of dissent and persistence, whose very provocation of disgust ensures its survival.
- Daisy Lafarge



Book Information
ISBN 9781739616052
Author Abi Palmer
Format Paperback
Page Count 118
Imprint Makina Books
Publisher Makina Books