Mimosa

Mimosa was a reading and the release event of Jenny Kalliokulju’s book THE STONE IS INDEED or The Stonebreakers Puppet. Present were also paintings by Kalliokulju. Event was the first one held in our home in Tapiola, Espoo.

THE STONE IS INDEED or The Stonebreakers Puppet, is an investigation of the limits of language. It is an incongruous mesh of prose, poetry, philosophy, play and a song. Playing with narration and chronology, Kalliokulju approaches writing as a performance, as an active process of world making. Gertrude Stein writes: what is a rose what is it?  What is meaning, a deed or a word? What is meaning as-practice? What is making sense? Words don’t know about sense. It can be at the same time abstract and concrete, slippery, fishing for whatever is not a word. When this non-word-between the lines-takes the bait, something has been written. Indeed, it’s something… but what is it?