In the pandemic, artists Marcus Bergner and Myriam Van Imschoot created a poem of rapidly spoken words, Urge, accelerating intensity and interlocking energies into a dazzling message in which the void coiled. Now they revisit this work to insert and annotate it with other registers and gifts, drunken on words, sliding frequencies, tinkering gaps and addictive worries, films and smuggled cargo.

Pattern poems and some mechanical prose spoken pairs live poetry with performance with an interested in how an audience can patter in. 

Myriam Van Imschoot is a Belgium-based artist working through newpolyphonies, her artistic structure for developing work across performance, film and installation, with voice as a central medium. Marcus Bergner also based in Belgium, has exhibited and worked extensively in the fields of sound poetry and experimental film.

This event wishes to bring attention to and express opposition towards the looming cut-backs of reference librarians, services and staff at the State Library of Victoria.