Residency artists and researchers Literature Mikael Brygger Poet I am a poet from Helsinki and the editor-in-chief of Tuli&Savu, a poetry magazine. At the Saari Residence, I will be working on my contribution to the work Adriadnen langat (Adriadne’s threads), which combines the methods of poetry and modern art. It is an interactive installation, the figure of which is formed from eighty-one queue poles, the kind you see at airports, ticket booths and waiting rooms. The queue poles will be placed in a square (9×9) and the belts drawn between them form a queuing labyrinth that reflects on the control of public space. All eighty-one belts are equally long, and on both sides of these “threads” will be written Finnish and English poems of a specified length (approximately forty characters). The other members of our work group are Henriikka Tavi, with whom I will create the text for the installation, and the visual arts group IC-98. A labyrinth without Ariadne is just a labyrinth: to contrast the machine-like structure of the installation, we intend to write lyric poetry about nature. The white and green world of the Saari Residence offers every advantage toward achieving this end.