During the Borger Nocturne we gather in the Monastery Garden for an early 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.

Location: MORPHO, Monastery Garden
Entrance via Kunsthal Extra City (Provinciestraat 112)

In case of bad weather, the readings will take place in the church of Extra City.

Artists: Davide La Montagna, E.N. Mirembe