LABOUR OF TONGUES is a document of poetry that records, but saves nothing. It asks, what becomes of the personal without narration, without storytelling? Can the personal exist without? Two channels run parallel along one another serving as drainage of memory, shared and split. It deals with the jargon of the blood tied, storytelling, and storytellers too close to skin, and tries to find expansion in giving up on sense-making. It uses imitation and declaration as containers for disorder and loss, repetition as an usher for pain.

neneh noï’s practice revolves around language; facilitating spaces where writing and performance activate each other; translation, transcription, facilitating, pedagogy, archiving. Currently they are in the process of publishing a children’s book on pre-adolescent non/human intimacies with l’Amazone Editions, archiving their gran’s and their own poetry, and developing a sabotage school within schools. They facilitate screaming sessions called rage is not a luxury.