An approach / a program.
Christina Maria Pfeifer, who was present at our third performance, recently sent us some very welcome feedback:
(1) Title: I’d like to mention 1st that the title ‚unaussprechbarlich‘ is excellent. It is right to the point! it reflects the high potential of the Germany language to create words and by creating you can get mixed up like ‚unaussprechbarlich‘ does. However, everybody who speaks German will understand. And at the same time your creation is sort of poetic and a little Dada when spoken out. Thus speaking sound-wise to non-Germany speaker as well. To sum up: Unaussprechbarlich could be more than a title for an art project, it could be the title of an approach or a program. I loved it from the 1st moment on and understood intuitively what the work was about without being fixed in a mind set of expectations. (2) Mix of languages: The almost random mix of languages (there could be even more, others etc.) seamed to me very European as well as very contemporary. We today live a global Babel everywhere and anytime, in particular on the web and in the social net-works. A basic understanding of foreign languages is not any longer a pre-condition to communicate with each other. We all use on-line translators and Asian people use latin letters to be translated into their letters on the screen. So in your performance the mix of languages and the mix of representations by different media (pronunciation by humans and machines, typing, screening, projection, singing, etc.) transforms the global Babel into a piece of art. This piece of art is fluid, unstable, a collage of mixed layers, intuitive, enlightening, (un-)decodable and funny. (3) Meaning and sense: The performance articulates an ‚old‘ discussion in the arts: the question of meaning and sense. This question is of course related to language and communication, to psychology as well. However, your performance is not an academic, linguistic discussion or psychological approach. It is linked to it but only in the 3rd layer, softly, playfully, intelligent. It remains in the 1st place an art performance and offers an aesthetic and sensual experience. In the 2nd place it opens up a space/room of understanding that exists in-between or even beyond the sense of words. Es ist etwas Unaussprechbares. Vielleicht das Unaussprechbare schlechthin. We as participants of the performance deal with it, we get in touch with it, we play with it and enjoy it. Thus, we enjoy something what we are often scared of. This is great performance art!
Thanks again Christina Maria!
