A Mic Of One’s Own

Friday 11 December 2026
7–9 pm

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A new edition of A Mic of One’s Own, a series of collaborations between Kunstinstituut Melly and The Writer’s Guide (to the Galaxy)!

Return, repeat, and begin again

For this edition, we’re getting inspired by You will find us in the best places, a major exhibition of the practice of artist Moshekwa Langa, staged across the entirety of Kunstinstituut Melly. The show marks the largest overview of Moshekwa’s work to be presented in the Netherlands, where he has lived for more than 25 years.

Having grown up in Bakenberg in the province of Limpopo, South Africa, Moshekwa encountered official South African maps that did not feature his hometown. His recurring interest in mapping reflects apartheid South Africa’s selective cartographies and has informed a conceptual concern with the politics of landlessness, mapping, and borders. Rather than reaching conclusions, the ideas in Moshekwa’s practice return, repeat, and begin again. Works may start and only be finished years later: there’s no chronology or linearity, things begin again, beginnings are continuous, and instead of conclusions there are pauses and ellipses. Time is nebulous and elastic.

Performers: we’re looking for you!

We invite all types of writers to perform a piece with ‘Return, repeat and begin again’ as its central theme. As always, you can take this as literal or as metaphorical as you want: a personal essay about f*cking up and starting all over again, a short story with only opening lines from famous novels, a piece of writing that can never be finished, but can be returned to, repeated, or begun again, or anything else you might imagine!