Songs of Love and Infection

In Micheli’s practices, listening as a form of witnessing and diary-writing has always been central to his music-making. To listen is to be aware of the listener’s own limits and difficulties, and at the same time open up the listener to other voices, rhythms, and melodies from other human, non-human, and more-than-human bodies.

Correspondingly, De Negri’s long-form poem Wolbachia: love songs in times of extinction explores interrelations among insects and microbes, while rethinking gender, sex, and love. Wolbachia bacteria are powerful microbial agents capable of inducing sex change in invertebrates and thus carrying potential ecological futures. This performance could be seen as a form of fabulation or, perhaps, using words and sounds, an attempt to narrate a post-human mythology of habitation and cohabitation.

• Part of L is for the Way You Look at Me II

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