Nokturno 5-2017 brings you site-specific installations, sound poetry and a love story written and photographed with a smart phone. Poet-in-digital-residence continues his work with the theme poetry & games.<\/p>\n
Runopaikkoja and its Kalma (death) series is a joint project by litterature critic Tarja Hallberg and artist and illustrator Nina Mutik. Enne (Omen) and Raja (Border or Line)<\/a> are site-specific poetry installations suggesting a collaborative way of working with nature in a creative process.<\/p>\n Photographer Tekla Inari tells a modern love story in her book Siniset vuodet\/Blue Years<\/a> (Kosmos, 2017). The bilingual book combines photography and poetry and most of the poems are originally written and photographed with a smart phone. Poems are translated by Kasper Salonen.<\/p>\n Heikki Saure is featured in this issue of Nokturno with two pieces. First of them is a selection of his Writings off the ground. Since 1993 he has been collecting discarded paper and various objects with writing in them. From alltogether astonishing 3 000 objects there are now 20 on display at Nokturno<\/a>. Nokturno also opens a series of essays on Arto Kyt\u00f6honka, pioneer in Finnish digital poetry. In the introductory essay <\/a>Heikki Saure shares an overview on Kyt\u00f6honka\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Featured in this issue is also Scott Northrup. This time his material aren\u2019t headlines of newspapers as in last issue but an American war novel from mid 1900\u00b4s. And the result is once again something completely different. Alone<\/a> originates from Northrup\u2019s residency at Arteles Creative Center in 2015.<\/p>\n We also present very different approaches to sound poetry. Henna Joronen\u2019s poems bear a strong feminist message and draw from performance as a form of poetry. Why She Does What She Does and To Understand<\/a> are now at Nokturno. Last but not least we have three different end results from experiments with Arduino-based \u201dnoise boxes\u201d in a sound poetry workshop conducted by Mikael Brygger and Jari Suominen. Jyrki Myll\u00e4rinen, Ave Vellesalu and Louna-Tuuli Luukka<\/a> built their own devices to produce the sounds and combined them with notations inspired by concrete and visual poetry and poetry without words.<\/p>\n