This week my new poetry/sound installation PIENIÄ TOSIASIOITA will premiere as part of the opening weekend of the Art Street Jyväskylä’s autumn season (Jyväskylän Taidekatu), September 6-8. The installation will take place at Taavettilan riihi – the oldest building in the Jyväskylä city area and located within the Jyväskylä University Botanical Garden.

In the piece PIENIÄ TOSIASIOITA (“small truths/facts”), texts from nine Jyväskylä-based poets intersect, collide, become pollinated and stratified, break apart – and form new, accidental, momentary compositions. This is accompanied by discreet site-specific music created from the sounds recorded inside and outside the installation space (a “drying barn”). The voices and textual fragments of the poets as well as the musical motifs keep unfolding in a state of constant permutation, quietly self-organising and -changing – like a river that flows, an urban space in motion, or a forest following the seasons.

The featured poets:

Olli-Pekka Tennilä
Suvi Valli
Kristian Blomberg
Riikka Simpura
Petri Turunen
Anniina Louhivuori
Niklas Salmi
Riitta Cankoçak
Vesa Lahti

Welcome!

Working on the installation at the KulttuuriKauppila artist residency in Ii, Finland, July-August 2024.