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 based in Belgium, working through the medium of voice in performance, film and installation. 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.

CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Myriam Van Imschoot and Marcus Bergner

DATE & TIME Friday 12 December 7pm

LOCATION Temperance Hall, Main Hall, 199 Napier St South Melbourne

ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair accessible

TICKETS by donation, please register to attend

Myriam Van Imschoot and Marcus Bergner are Apartment Studio Residents at Temperance Hall

In 2025, Temperance Hall's on-site self-catered live-in apartment was renovated and converted into the ‘Apartment Studio Residency’. This space offers artists a place to live, work and sleep, and includes a dedicated work space for studio practice alongside sleeping and living quarters, including a private kitchen, bathroom and courtyard.

Temperance Hall's Apartment Studio Residency provides opportunities for artists/collaborations to develop and share new artistic work/choreography/research/experiments with local audiences during their stay.

Image design Myriam Van Imschoot with score drawing Marcus Bergner and photo still Yanni Florence