Press release, November 2022

We are very excited for our first Copenhagen release and to finally put the new Little Virgil issue 6 out in the world! So come through for a glass of glühwein and celebrate with us. JUNO <'3 dj bl00d5port will be playing from 15-18 and Ming Yuan's video A Million Moons will be looping all day.

Little Virgil is a queer anarchist mixed media platform founded by Emil Grüner and Sylvester Vogelius in Berlin, 2016. Since then they have curated exhibitions and published artists and poets from all over the world. The platform works through a wide variety of channels, but most essential for Little Virgil is their need to create community between friends and different art forms and to insist to think in plural.

Release: Saturday the 19th of November, 13-18. Facebook event.
More info: @_littlevirgil
Note: This event is wheelchair accessible.

This year’s issue is a compilation of:

ANDREA ABI-KARAM (LB/US) is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg, workshop facilitator, and activist. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (2016), queers Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. With Drea Marina they co-hosted Words of Resistance [2012-2017] a monthly, radical, QTPOC open floor poetry series to fundraise for political prisoners’ commissary funds. Selected by Bhanu Kapil, Andrea’s debut EXTRATRANSMISSION (2019) is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. Andrea toured with Sister Spit in 2018 and has performed at RADAR, The Poetry Project, The STUD, Basilica Soundscape, TransVisionaries, Southern Exposure, Counterpulse, among others.

ANNA WINSLOW (US) is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. She is interested in themes of the divine, the angelic, the body, and choral music.

HAOLUN XU (CN/US) is a Chinese-American poet, writer, and filmmaker based in New Jersey. He was born in Nanning, China, and raised in New Jersey. He holds a B.A. in English and Political Science from Rutgers University. Haolun’s writing has appeared in literary journals such as Electric Literature, Narrative, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Joyland, jubilat, and more. Haolun’s work has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, and also for Best Of The Net. Haolun is also an Associate Poetry Editor for the literary journal, Pidgeonholes. He is also a Fiction Editor for the literary organization and press, Newfound.

JAVIER ALVAREZ SAGREDO (CL/SE) born 1994, Sweden. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sagredo graduated with an MFA from the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark (2021), and holds a BFA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden (2018). Their work has been exhibited at Art Hub (Copenhagen, Denmark), Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Kørsor, Denmark), Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen, Denmark), Villa Kultur (Copenhagen, Denmark) and at Kummelholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) among others.

LILY LADY (US) born 1998, is a writer and artist living in New York City. In her free time she does crosswords and watches baseball. She is the author of ‘quickie’ a mixed media project that combines poetry, fine art and iPhone photography.

MEGHANN BOLTZ (US) is a poet currently living in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the chapbook rebel/blonde (Bottlecap Press, 2018), and her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, glitterMOB, Lor, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. She received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and was shortlisted for the 2018 Metatron Prize.

SAM W. HARPER (NZ) born 1993, Auckland NZ. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Harper is the co-founder of drift and holds a Master of Fine Arts - New Media Art, Universität der Künste Berlin, Class of Dr. Hito Steyerl, Their work has been exhibited at Future Capsule, West Germany (Berlin, DE) Radio Cashmere, (Berlin, DE), Kino Babylon, (Berlin, DE) Gruppe Magazine, Gone Fishing, (Leipzig DE) among others.

STINE MARIE JAKOBSEN (DK) is a conceptual artist working to decode violence and law both individually and collectively through participatory means. She lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA in 2009 and a BFA from CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA in 2007. Some of her notable solo shows have been at Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018, Flat Time House, London, England, 2018, Galerie Wedding, 2016, Berlin, Germany, Overgaden, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, among others.

MUSIC:
dj bl005p0rt

SCREENING:
‘A Million Moons’ 2022, by Ming Yuan.

MING YUAN (CN) born in 1997, Chengdu, China. She lives in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, and Chengdu. So far she works mostly in the form of installation, combining texts, images, sound, and physical materials together to communicate and explore the unknown.

! Many thanks and mad love to everyone involved !