Afro-Queer Hallucinations
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| Info: Exhibition Space "Benin bronzes" / Room 209 |
| Suitable for: 12 years and older |
| Which languages: English |
| Venue: 2nd Floor |
| Belongs to: Transkontinentale 2025 |
In this poetic treatise on truth, community and creative technologies, Logan February uses the metaphor of “hallucination” in language-based models of artificial intelligence to question power relations and resist queer exile. After the facts of colonization and criminalisation, is it a lie or a timely imagination to reclaim a space beyond gender binaries within the Yoruba language? The lecture examines the risky power of myth-making in our recognition of ourselves and each other in history and mother-tongue; the ways in which we co-create the cultural reality and future of queer African belonging.
Logan February is a Nigerian poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores desire, psychospirituality, and Afro-queer identity. Their poetry collections include In The Nude (Ouida Poetry, 2019) and Mental Voodoo (Poesie Dekolonie/Engeler Verlag, 2024). Their short film, Thrall, was an official selection at the 2025 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. February received the Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature and recent fellowships from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Literaturhaus Wien, and Akademie der Künste, among others. Presently a poet-in-residence at the Humboldt Forum, Logan February lives in Berlin.
