Love Letters - with E.N. Mirembe and Davide La Montagna

During the Borger Nocturne there will be an evening of readings on belonging, by residents Davide La Montagna and E.N. Mirembe.

Davide La Montagna’s performative poetry Love is a Nightless City is a mermaid’s love letter from the wrong element — a body made of fluids and folklore, gasping on dry land and writing love as an act of vanishing.

E.N. Mirembe will be reading How to Make a Country, a meditation on blackqueer fugitivity as a mode of life lived beyond the terms of the nation state. Moving between theory and poetry, the reading takes wild flowers as a point of departure to ask what forms of relation become possible when belonging is no longer organized through ownership, citizenship, or legal recognition.

Programme

• Darly Benneker's solo show Walls, Soft as Listening will be open during the Borger Nocturne, from 18:00–21:00 in The Refectory.
• At Extra City, Grounds #2 will launch at 19:00.
• At 20:00, Sammy Baloji will have anartist talk with Samuel Saelemaekers at the altar in the church.

E.N. Mirembe is currently a resident at the Goethe-Institut Belgium at MORPHO. The main focus of the residency is curating in times of democratic crisis.

In collaboration with dasKULTURforum Antwerp.