Invited authors: Kati Neuvonen , Hamdam Zakirov , Sini Silveri and Saad Hadi
Event cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Baltic Humanoids was initially intended as an event gathering writers living in the Nordics or in the Baltic area. Organised by NOXLit (Sweden) and Sivuvalo (Finland), it was slated to take place at Oodi, Helsinki’s Central Library. The focus was the symbolic function of bodies, animals, and landscapes in poetry, as new modes of social critique and of describing an ongoing planetary transformation.
As with so many other events this year, the Oodi reading was cancelled due to the pandemic. The grief of the cancellation could not hinder, however, our excitement about these topics and authors. A one-time reading grew into a series of interviews and translations, which intends to showcase these and other poets to a non-Finnish speaking public, and to bring to Finland new voices and aesthetics, which might resonate with current debates here.
The series’s intent is to present the silent revolution that is renovating the relations between big old concepts, like nature and culture, human and animal, living and inert, beauty and ugliness, mind and body, the self and the other.
NOXLit is supported by Nordisk kulturfond and Nordisk kulturkontak
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