Large Language: An Afro-Queer Hallucination

In Cooperation with Literaturhaus Bonn.

This lecture is a poetic treatise on truth, oral history and the disruptive role of the written word in fabricating contemporary Afro-queer identity. Drawing on the metaphor of "hallucination" in language-based AI models, the poet explores invention, falsehood, cultural claim, and myth-making as productive tensions connecting an indigenous past to a cosmopolitan future. At stake is the question: how do struggles between creator, creation and culture influence the legitimacy—and futurity—of queer African belonging?

As the opening event of the conference Temporalities and Power: Oppression, Resistance, Justice, Logan February will present a specially developed lecture performance titled Large Language: An Afro-Queer Hallucination, followed by a reading of poems from the collection Mental Voodoo.

Logan February is a Nigerian poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores desire, psychospirituality, and Afro-queer identity. Their poetry collections include In The Nude (Ouida Poetry, 2019) and Mental Voodoo (Poesie Dekolonie/Engeler Verlag, 2024). Their short film, Thrall, was an official selection at the 2025 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. February received the Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature and has been a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, among others. Presently a poet-in-residence at the Humboldt Forum, Logan February lives in Berlin.