Minimum World: P. Staff, TLF Trio

ash,,
there is an
irreversible world
to be in 

Minimum World celebrates the eponymous poetry collection by artist P. Staff followed by a concert with TLF trio (Jakob Littauer, Cæcilie Trier, MK Velsorf). 

Over the course of the evening, P. Staff will read from their poems, deploying a piercing, carnal language to dissect sickness, death, and in the artist’s words, life, when it is not given. Spanning texts written between 2018 and 2025, the reading traces seven years of linguistic experimentation focused on the exertion of violence, both visible and subterranean, upon subjugated, injured, and queer bodies.

Launching the durational live program Another Sun, Minimum World approaches necropolitics, dysphoria, and bodily vulnerability as lived effects of the subsurface: an architecture of extractive violence that penetrates and seeps through bodies and lands, governing how life is recognised and valued.

The reading is followed by a concert by TLF trio presenting Desire, their sophomore full-length album released in September 2025. The trio’s signature contemporised chamber music, anchored in piano, cello, and electric guitar, is here expanded through an extensive use of sampling and a precise deployment of silence as musical material. Originally from Denmark, they have performed for festivals for experimental music throughout Europe, including Tanzquartier Wien, Berlin Atonal, KW, Berlin, Rewire Festival, Den Haag, Villa Medici, Rome.

The poetry collection Minimum World is co-published by Bierke Verlag and Bonner Kunstverein in connection with the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany, Durchdringung, (Bonner Kunstverein, 11 Oct, 2025 – 1 Feb, 2026). P. Staff is also presenting works in Oslo as part of Grammars of Light (6 Feb – 10 May, 2026) at Astrup Fearnley Museet.