Milo Ruut has been writing texts for his own enjoyment for ten years. He enjoys the aesthetics of words, especially when the words are in wrong places at the wrong times. For Ruut, writing is all about communicating his own vivid imagination to others and the process of creating new images through words. Through his writing, Ruut wants to highlight how things that are perceived as negative can be transformed into prompts for love.
At the festival we’ll hear Ruut’s texts, which deal with the holy trinity of work, personal life and the meaning of life. The texts convey the absurdities of life and language, bring forth different worlds of experience, and use words to escape from a world filled with lack of understanding.
Curators’ comments: “Ruut’s insightful poems succeed in capturing the absurd moments of everyday life beautifully. He writes fragmentary and concise poetry that is often built on very precise concepts. Human understanding is built on linguistic thinking, to which Ruut connects his introspective world.”
