{"id":7092,"date":"2021-12-29T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nokturno.fi\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:14:39","slug":"poetry-in-all-kinds-of-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nokturno.fi\/en\/poetry-in-all-kinds-of-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in all kinds of places"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue opens with Storage closet<\/em> by Cliff Watson<\/strong>, it was born as part of a hybrid-genre story 6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age<\/em>, where a virtual reality room is created in an old storage closet as a gift from one character to another. Watson has used technologies of VR and AR and video art to create a fantastic and delightful scene.<\/p>\n

Kesken kaikista paikoista<\/em> (Everywhere Unfinished) is a new collaborative piece from poet Milka Luhtaniemi<\/strong> and sound artist and programmer Joonas Siren<\/strong>. The work builds up slowly into a gentle, absorbing and spatial experience. A previous version of the work, Toinen laji<\/em>, was on display at gallery Forum Box earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Anna Helle<\/strong> is researcher of contemporary Finnish poetry, in her latest releases she has specialized in societal topics in contemporary poetry. Helle\u2019s and Mitja Jakonen’s<\/strong> Tapahtuu meille kaikille<\/em> (Happens to all of us<\/em>) addresses questions of nostalgia, societal evolutions and catastrophes. It was inspired by the 30-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nostalgia and past is present also in the visual and audio elements of the poem through old recording technologies.<\/p>\n

Our essay in this issue is Tarja Hallberg\u00b4s<\/strong> Aarrekartta runopaikoille: kokeita, vajoavia sanoja ja leikkikirjoitusta, <\/em>presentation of the methods and practices of the latest series in Runopaikka<\/em> concept, Leikki<\/em> (Play). Hallberg introduces methods she\u00b4s developed in a project of site-speficic poetry. This time, reflecting the pandemia era, the site is home.<\/p>\n

Luontokonttaaja is an audio poetry band delighting and confusing audience with the absurd, hilarious and also brutal lyrics by Mikko R\u00e4ty<\/strong> and Irene Kajo<\/strong>. Combined with industrialish sounds by Mikko Turunen<\/strong> the group is guaranteed to suprise more conventional friends of poetry. Since Nokturno has no age limit, we release one of their more eloquent pieces, Olemme kokoontuneet kaikkialta kaikkeudesta<\/em> (We have gathered from everywhere in the universe)<\/p>\n

\u201dI have begun to turn into a plastic whisperer\u201d, says the narrator of Marjo Malin\u00b4s<\/strong> digital prose work Sil(a)kkaa roskaa?<\/em> (Sheer trash\/herring trash). Malin is known as a graphic designer and illustrator and has now taken into creating digital literature. Her work combining text and photography focuses on plastic, trash, people littering, the question we every once in a while notice ourselves asking: how is it possible that we humans spread these amounts of trash into the nature.<\/p>\n

And last but not least, Ohjelmoinnista tykk\u00e4\u00e4n<\/em> (I like programming) by Petri Keckman<\/strong>. Keckman\u00b4s charming work is about programming, with slide shows of his visual creations and him singing in Finnish. \u201dI program because I love it, just as little children draw with crayons just for the pure joy of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is the last issue for me as the editor in chief of Nokturno. I started six years ago, first as a coordinator and producer of the rebuilding of the site and then ended up being the editor in chief for several years. It\u2019s been a real joy to work in a such intriguing field of literature\/art. I\u00b4m thankful for all the fascinating works of art I\u00b4ve encountered and had a chance to bring to our readers, and of all the discussions with poets and artists, online and offline!<\/p>\n

I\u00b4d especially like to thank our web designer Teemu Tuovinen<\/strong> for always being there to co-create new works of digital literature, for solving any technical problems we\u2019ve had during these years and helping me with basically everything.<\/p>\n

As Nokturno steps into the era of a new editor in chief (read more about Miikka Laihinen<\/strong> here<\/a>) I\u00b4d like to once more raise a glass in memory of Marko Niemi<\/strong>, whose work in Nokturno in 2006-2014 is the foundation the site is based on. May the open-mindedness, spirit of internationality and wide interest in existing and rising fields of literature he showed in his work be the guidelines of Nokturno also in the future.<\/p>\n

Virpi<\/p>\n

(Image from Cliff Watson\u00b4s Storage closet<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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