Minimum World: P. Staff, TLF Trio

Minimum World
P. Staff, TLF Trio (Jakob Littauer, Cæcilie Trier, MK Velsorf)
Sun 8 Feb
Landmark
75,- / 150,- / 200,-

The event is free for Bergen Kunsthall's members, Borealis Listening Club, and students at BAS, KMD (incl GAK), KiB, and art history at UiB. 

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. 

Curated by Jade Meili Barget

P. Staff
Through installation, video, sculpture, performance and poetry, Staff’s work explores the ways in which history, technology, capitalism and law transform the constitution of contemporary bodies, their tissues, their minds, and their social spheres. With a particular focus on desire, debility and dispossession, their practice mediates current biopolitical and necropolitical configurations through which bodies – especially those of people who are queer, trans, or disabled – are disciplined. Staff is based in Los Angeles and London, and is represented by gallery Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Galerie Sultana, Paris.

TLF trio
TLF Trio is a Danish experimental music ensemble consisting of cellist Cæcilie Trier, pianist Jakob Littauer and guitarist MK Velsorf. TLF works with written composition, improvisation, sampling and electronic beats, across classical chamber music, minimalism, pop, and house. They have performed at leading venues and festivals for experimental music throughout Europe, among others Tanzquartier Wien, Berlin Atonal, KW, Berlin, Rewire Festival, Den Haag, Villa Medici, Rome.

Their first album, Sweet Harmony was released on the French electronic and experimental label Latency in 2022 and an EP, New Songs & Variations, with new material and reworks by German techno pioneer Moritz von Oswald on Latency in 2023. This evening celebrates their second album, Desire.

*P. Staff, Minimum World, (Bonner Kunstverein and Bierke Verlag, 2025).

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