We warmly invite you to a rocky sonic silent reading of Sabrina Imbler’s Dyke Geology at Les Complices*. In a three day residency sound artists Aio and Franziska will develop a improvisational sonic composition – a soft sonic lithology of magnetizing magma, tectonic rumbles, stony timbres, slow erosions and crystallized oscillations – to support your individual reading of Sabrina's autofictional poetics. Molten strata of sweet, starchy rice pudding rich with cinnamonic minerals and syrupy geothermal glow will be served.

Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions—what it means to live and date under white supremacy, to never know if one is loved or fetishized, how to navigate fierce desires and tectonic heartbreak through the rise and eventual eruption of a first queer love. In vivid, tensile prose, Dyke (geology) subverts the flat, neutral language of scientific journals to explore what it means to understand the Earth as something queer, volatile, and disruptive.

«The history of magnetism on Earth is locked in molten rock, teased out in fiery plumes that burst forth from the mantle. As the fire dies into the hardness of basalt, it preserves the exact magnetic forces working on Earth at the time of its cooling. This is how Kohala learned of the changing of the poles. She felt it in her lava. Each explosion, therefore, is a kind of record of ecstasy: of what felt good, what hurt, what would soon disappear under clouds of ash.»