I first met Robert Renk, the director of the W:ORTE festival in Innsbruck after a performance I gave to open a festival in Frankfurt in 2019. It became quite well known in Germany as there were like 200 people in the audience and long story short I ended up eating the flowers on display and they called an ambulance. He liked that and invited me to his festival, delayed to June 2022, now, and I had the chance to open the festivities with a new collaboration with my old friend Robert Prosser.

Robert and I, to a slightly shellshocked audience in the Innsbruck library, did a nearly hour long improv performance which involved a fake press conference, staredown, chess, a manta ray, singing, me being mary Magdalene, skipping etc… The pictures here speak to the mood, and there was actually a 4 camera setup, so that footage is going to be good.

Apart from that the fest was so so lovely – hospitable, sociable, even a bit luxurious, very funny, relaxed. The atmosphere was so polite, friendly but layered with Austrian irony. I made loads of new friends. This really reminded me of the best experiences of my pre pandemic poetry travels, which were such a big part of my life – a miracle thing, to be invited to travel to share weird poetry, that never wears off.