β Scribed by Lindsey Drager
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earthβs visits by Halleyβs Comet,The Archive of Alternate Endingsexplores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold.
In 1456, Johannes Gutenbergβs sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he canβt come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth's sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy.
Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror,The Archive of Alternate Endingsexplores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire'sHereand Lars von Trier'sMelancholia.
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