Ariadne and the Inflammatory choir

“We as women need to reclaim the positive value of the fluid, not as the opposite of the solid masculine but as something that can fill the spaces between the binary terms and join them into what Cixous has termed ‘a moving, limitlessly changing ensemble’, or what Deleuze and Guattari describe as an ‘assemblage’”. Sally Evans in The Anti-Logos Weapon, 2011. The Inflammatory Choir is an on-growing collection of dilated fluids delivered by burning lips; encountered while researching the figure of Ariadne, known in Greek myths as the sister of the Minotaur, guard of Daedalus’s maze, and helper/lover of Theseus. I wrote a new chapter of Ariadne’s story, around which I gathered archived content or specially-produced contributions: interviews, photographs, projects features, novel extracts, poems, theoretical texts. Ariadne becomes the leading figure throughout the magazine, erasing the masculine forces which historically governed her story in order to draw a new one that echoes to contemporary individual and collective practices. The magazine exists in two forms, which display the content in two different narratives, proposing alternative routes for accessing the collection:—online: www.inflammatorychoir.net —and in print : Issue I: ‘A higher wave in sight’; Issue II: ‘Glowing in sweat, Dancing in dazzle’.