FISSILE MATERIAL is the physical cumulation of a long-term research project undertaken by Gervaise Alexis Savvias; a reflective tidbit of an ongoing, interpersonal archival exploration.

Threading together independent field work, political meditations, and an incisive reflection of a personal research-based practice, the publication is an insight into how a radical archival impulse might be nurtured. At its core, this text is neither fixed nor static. It is offered as encouragement to a reader to engage with the concept-matter of the archive precisely through its dynamism, as opposed to arbiter of fact and truth. At its precipice, the archive is a meeting point: the interpersonal and political coalesce. Through a symbiosis of parapoetics, prose and research, FISSILE MATERIAL is a sensitive relation to and exploration of (self) archiving, informed by the author’s own interaction with their locality’s recollection of 1974; genealogy, and theory. And as always: poetry is political.

Text by Gervaise Alexis Savvias (@gervais.e)
Publication and CD design by Stelios Ilchuk (@steliosilchuk);
Riso printed by Τάτσες Coop (@eltaller_space);
CD Production by εl ταγέρ multispace.

Limited edition of 100 copies.
Each edition comes with a CD–comprised of a sonic collage produced in collaboration with Giorgos Karaolis (@therealgk.official / @itsastrochimp) in Summer 2023. 

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