The dictionary and the scream
Infernal Monologue
Infernal Monologue: A Reader
Tips of the Sung
The burly word catches the erm
Push on. Shuffle up. Hang tough.
Mortal Combat
The Reader
How to live on twenty-four hours a day
Just be glad it’s not you
Blake fruid
Yep, that’s the mood
Proust Crisis
into wanderer lonely
a sort of shadow
Physical


 


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Vibrational Semantics


The dictionary and the scream


2025 vocal performance with two channel video and sound, 30 mins

from the event Situated Institutions, Relational Practices, Liminal Studios,  Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 11th April 2025





Laughter is an interruption, an outburst from the unconscious, an eruption from the body—something that happens as if outside of our control. The act of laughter itself sits somewhere in the delirious margins between the systematic abstraction of language and the sounds of the instinctual drives of the body. Exploring the thresholds of sense and nonsense with the beyonsense language of laughter, The dictionary and the scream explores laughter as a language of its own. The performance questions hierarchies of control, laughter’s role in human connection, and its unique power over consciousness. Particularly of interest is the subject of how laughter plays a part in structures of patriarchal relationships, and how humour can be used to explore issues of contemporary masculinity.

Presented within the context of the event Situated Institutions, Relational Practices, Liminal Studios taking place at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 11 April 2025.

Developed whilst on residency at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

Photos and video: Jan van Eyck Academie






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