Shaya Feldman
Orpheus Instituut, Belgium
From Information to Transformation:
Writing and Performing Gibberish
Gibberish is a liminal area between the music of language and the language of the music — between sense and non-sense. By performing Gibberish, I explore the boundaries of language and music and seek to challenge them. By researching Gibberish, I provide a broader context for my experiments and enlarge my performative tool box. Gibberish can best be understood in relation to ‘proper language’; it interacts, plays with and deconstructs language. If Gibberish transforms language to non-sense, academic writing on Gibberish brings it back to proper language. The double position of writing on Gibberish while writing in Gibberish, helps me understand how both Gibberish and proper language function.