Songs of Love and Infection
Edoardo Micheli and Jennifer de Negri
Sound Performance, Poetry Reading
Thu., 16.7.2026
20:30–21:30
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English
Free entry

Oak processionary caterpillars in Berlin, 2026. Photo: Jennifer de Negri
This sound and poetry performance stems from a collaboration between musician Edoardo Micheli and writer Jennifer de Negri, exploring multispecies storytelling and queer feminist ecologies. 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.