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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 published alongside Palmer’s debut exhibition, Slime Mother at Chapter, Cardiff (July 2024). Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures & ecological landscapes.

'All hail Abi Palmer’s Slugs...an addictive art world gossip column, a crip phenomenology, and a glistening, utopian theory of gender, queerness and desire.' – Daisy Lafarge, author of Lovebug

'The best kind of fiction, the best kind of art - Abi Palmer has sliced something so delicate and unwieldy into perfectly matched halves and it is like an actual real genuine magic trick.' – Zarina Muhammad, The White Pube

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Makina Books, 2025, 172 pages