The concept of gesture can be understood in a Brechtian sense as societal. Yet, the word gesture carries with it a sense of smallness and subtlety. In literature, gestures are bodily anchor points, movements, or shocks. In this issue of Nokturno, the gestures of the works are subtle but also grow in their materiality to […]
Editorials
1-2024
Visual poetry
In this issue we introduce three works of visual poetry from Tuula Sipilä, David Seth Horton and Serse Luigetti. All of the works have a unique relation to text as a visual element. The seven visual poems by Serse Luigetti celebrate the aesthetics of pop-art and collage. In the works the shapes and letter-kind forms, […]
3-2023
Questions of rhythm, language and medium
The third and final issue of Nokturno 2023 is here! It features a lot of video poetry and a work combining visual poetry and sound art. Latitudes, a work of video poetry by Sarah Sands Phillips, creates an atmosphere of remembering through the repetitive rhythm of waves. The poetic text on the water’s horizon resembles […]
2-2023
Machinic Farewell
The summer Nokturno begins with a selection of machinic aphorisms. Lento #1 (“Flight #1”) by poet Jonne Piltonen and musician Heikki Saarenkunnas floods its expressional space with AI-assisted aphorisms. The composed and animated whole utilizes GPT-J language model and Stable Diffusion image generator as basis of its expression. Manuaali (“A Manual”), a “kinetic audiobook” by performance art group virate.me, takes full […]
3-2022
and in the darkness bind them
A four-part poetry film series Toxic Love Cycle, by Maryam Ghouth, approaches a suffocating relationship from the point of view of psychological projection. Sanna Telkki-Kova’s video poem Moribunda sum deals with death and the finiteness of life in terms of different mythological stratums. Menneisyysgenerattori (“Generator of the Past”) by Laura Tressel uses old weather forecasts, […]