Remembering the prototype performance ‘Learning language (with Love)’ that I performed during the Unheld Horses pre graduation show.
An interpretation of a pseudoscientific language learning method, a look into the confusion existing within the brain of a multilingual autodidact, an exercise in unlearning language/unlanguaging/‘een ontaliging’, a simulation of English from the perspective of the one who recognizes, but fails to understand, etc etc etc…
Thank you for your words and feedback!
Now, back to work.
See you in July (2-7th) at @royalacademyofart.thehague
⭐️ MEET THE GRADUATES ⭐️
Lila Maria de Coninck @whothehellislila
Learning Language (with Love)
This performance is a reinterpretation of a language learning class, inspired by a pseudoscientific language learning method that carries the name ‘Suggestopedia’.
By attempting to simulate the sensorial experience of a language from the learner’s perspective (with unconvential uses of voice, words and handwriting), the work wants to alienate English from its ‘fluent’ speakers, seeking potential fertile grounds for language revival and alternative world building in the stages of learning that manifest in between the binary distinction of ‘not knowing’ and ‘knowing’ a language.
First picture by @as12fg45
Second picture by @_nadia_gil
Ik slaag er niet in om het leven in mij op te nemen. Het is overal om mij heen. Zodanig dat ik mij afvraag of ik in staat ben om permanentie te ervaren (als ik al ooit deze kans krijg), omdat ik het tot nu toe alleen vermeden heb uit angst om preventief te weten te komen of mijn hoogste pijn gedroomd of geleefd zal worden.
The Joke Auction is a fundraising performance. It is inspired by the idea that, today, when one invests money in something its future worth is still unclear. At the Joke Auction themed jokes are told, but their punchline is only given away to the highest bidder, which makes that person the symbolic ‘owner’ of the joke.
You can hire me now for all fundraising related activities. 🔄💰🤑
Ik introduceerde vier ‘hieren’ met bijbehorende gebaren in een deictische herinterpretatie van de immersive taalleermethode met de naam Berlitz // Dank aan @zuidpool_antwerpen voor de ruimte en het vertrouwen!
The graduation is making me work more than that I am making the graduation work, but here is a sound recording of a first try-out on the video of a second one! Inspired by and about a very special language learning method and foreignizing English. With love.
