An Experiment in Learning Swedish

The piece An Experiment in Learning Swedish Is a meeting between Halsackda and the visitors to any given location. Halsackda, who is not a native Swedish speaker, will ask the audience to teach him Swedish words. However, instead of listening and repeating, Halsackda will try to deconstruct the meaning of the words into rhythms and thereafter perform an interpretation of them through physical movements. This process could be described as learning through physical resonance—an alternative to the usual techniques involved in language acquisition.