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Chapter 2: Words for the Future: A Sonic Fiction Night

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Tickets: CHF 35/25/15 (Abendkasse/Vorverkauf/Presale)
Lunaire

Poesie lässt Wörter vibrieren, verzerren, in Echos auftauchen und neue Rhythmen entstehen. Was wäre, wenn Poesie die Zukunft hörbar machen könnte, noch bevor sie geschieht? Diese Nacht mit Poesie- und Sound-Performances hört diesen Momenten zu – in denen das Alltägliche fremd wird und das Persönliche plötzlich politisch. Eine Nacht kollektiver Sonic Fiction – in der Poesie die Zukunft probt und das Kommende darauf antwortet. Wir freuen uns auf einen Abend in intimer Atmosphäre mit der Dichterin und Aktivistin Stella Nyanzi (Berlin/Masaka, Uganda), der Dichter*in und Künstler*in Ezzo Scourti (Athen/London), der Performance-Künstlerin Hilde Wollenstein (Berlin/Rotterdam) und der Dichter*in und LGBTQ+-Aktivist*in Logan February (Ibadan/Berlin) – gemeinsam mit den Klangkünstler*innen Ian Nnyanzi / Masaka Masaka (Uganda), bloop (Dehli), Alienationist (Berlin), nithin shams (Berlin/Dehli) und Ian Nnyanzi aka MASAKA MASAKA (Uganda). 

+++ Tickets Block 06 sind auch für Block 03 gültig und umgekehrt +++  

Poetry makes words hum, distort, echo, and find rhythm in the air. What if poetry could make futures audible before they happen? This night of poetry and sound performances listens for those moments, where the mundane turns strange, where the personal suddenly becomes political. A night of collective sonic fiction, where poetry rehearses the future, and the future answers back. An intimate night of deep listening with poet and activist Stella Nyanzi (Uganda), poet and artist Ezzo Scourti (Athens/London), performance artist Hilde Wollenstein (Berlin/Rotterdam), and poet and LGBTQ voice Logan February (Ibadan/Berlin). They will be joined by sound artists and musicians, bloop (Dehli), Alienationist (Berlin), nithin shams (Berlin/Dehli) und Ian Nnyanzi aka MASAKA MASAKA (Uganda).

+++ Tickets for Block 06 are also valid for Block 03 – and vice versa +++

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Beteiligte Personen / Involved People

Biography

Stella Nyanzi, poet and activist, wields language like a weapon against power. Jailed in her homeland, Uganda, for calling out the president, she now continues the fight from her exile in Berlin. Her poetry does what power hates most: it laughs, it injures, it refuses to kneel. Her latest book Exiled for My Mouth: Poems from across Borders is a must-read. Follow her on Instagram

Biography

Logan February writes at the crossroads – between ancestry and the future, body and myth. A queer poet forged in outsiderhood, the Nigerian poet has said that living outside the colonial frame freed them from its values and turned them back toward pre-colonial ways of knowing and being. Drawing from Yoruba traditions, queer longing, and the soft voltages of love and memory, their poems move like spirits – intimate, ecstatic, and unafraid. Follow them on their Website and read here.

Biography

Ezzo Scourti writes from inside the feed, where feelings become data, diaries are networked, and selves remix under pressure. They have exhibited internationally, including at High Line New York, SerendiCity Festival, in Hong Kong, and at the Athens Biennale, among others. Living between London and Athens, their work merges voice, intimacy, and identity, refusing smoothness, refusing extraction. Their solo publications include No to Self (Veer, 2023) and As the Non-World Falls Away (TEXTZ, 2024). Follow them on their website.

Biography

Hilde Wollenstein is working between poetry, performance, and electronic music, her practice moves through glitch, desire, and digital ghosts. Her spoken word music performances sound like messages from a world we half remember but haven't lived yet: part glitch-spell, part soft riot against clean binaries. Having recently finished a Master's in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, she is a poet for an era of broken signals and burning tenderness. Follow her on her Website.

Biography

Philipp Rhensius is an editor for Norient, writer, musician, sound artist, sociologist & musicologist, and curator from Berlin. His work investigates the connections between the micro- and macro-political and is driven by the idea that «feeling the chains» is the moment when emancipation begins. His music and sound art projects (Kl.ne, aphtc, Alienationst) merge sonic fiction with sardonic poetry and visceral sound. His texts are published in i.e. Taz, Spex, FAZ, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, WOZ and several book volumes. In late 2024, he started to write the autopoetic column Was Macht Mich in taz. He runs the music label Arcane Patterns and hosts a monthly podcast on Noods Radio. Follow him on Instagram, his Website, or LinkedIn.

Biography

Ian Nnyanzi is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Kampala, Uganda. His experimental work covers the themes of identity and nostalgia by documenting the contemporary African lifestyle.

Biography

Suvani Suri is a practitioner based in New Delhi, India. Her artistic and research inquiries are focused on sound, listening, voicing, aural/ oral archives, acoustic ecologies and technologies of sound. Her questions often take the form of curatorial propositions, assemblies, workshops, publications, podcasts, auditory texts, objects, installations, live and discursive interventions. Follow her on her website, Instagram, or SoundCloud.

Venue

Lunaire

Gerechtigkeitsgasse 71/73
3000 Bern
Switzerland