DEQUIUDES
Dequiudes is the second instalment inspired by Bergman's movie 'The Silence'. This new piece centres on miscommunication on multiple levels and deals with the difficulty of creating meaning or perhaps finding or determining meanings through language. The previous piece, Tystnaden, obliterated all the dialogues in the movie, exploring the void and empty spaces of human communication. In contrast, Dequiudes offers more freedom of invention by delving into the idea of arbitrary vocalization. The text, following Bergman's constructed language adopted in the movie, is created by repeating the words phonetically, thereby adding a further layer of possible misinterpretation. The conversations become deformed and exposed to many formal rules, originating a shifting dialogue that has the confused and illogical appearance of life. With the gaining of expressive language/sounds as a support, we are left to grapple with the mystery that is reality. What remains to us, in the end, is only our own voice.