The meaning of a word is its use.
Spoken language rarely arrives alone; it travels with gesture. We emphasise or soften our words, stretch their meaning, or brush them off. The silent contract between language and movement forms the core of Ingrid Berger Myhre’s lecture performance Terms & Conditions.
With humour and wit, Berger Myhre explores how the body encounters words and language: how literal and figurative meanings collide, how words slip, thoughts connect, and puns surface.
How do we use the body as a conduit for language? When must the body adjust to words, or contradict them? And what happens when meaning begins to shift?
