GLOSSOLALIA A SERMON FOR UNWRITING

Authors

  • Sussu Laaksonen Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37522/y6tvdt45

Keywords:

Glossolalia, unwriting, experimental poetry, sound art, communal practice, linguistic anarchy, anti-information

Abstract

Sussu Laaksonen delves into her sermon for unwriting: a critical assessment of art and religion’s exceptionalism. Using glossolalia, the phenomenon of being possessed by language without denotative functions, she proposes experiments for destabilizing the business-as-usual use of language.

Author Biography

  • Sussu Laaksonen

    Sussu Laaksonen is a doctoral student at University of Arts, Helsinki. She is preparing a dissertation on the somatic aspects of the writer’s artistic process. She has writing credits in film, television, theater and media art. She has been fascinated by the pre-linguistic, interoceptive and sensory aspects of the writing process for many years. Her Finnish-language narrative non-fiction book about the writing body, Vapaan kirjoittajan anatomia (Anatomy of a Free Writer) came out in 2023. To support her doctoral research she studies micro-phenomenology with Claire Petitmengin, and will graduate as a somatic movement practitioner from a three-year training led by Satu Palokangas in 2027.

Figure 1. Introduction to the glacier site. Copyright: (Suldenferner, 5 August 2023. Photograph by Márton Zalka.)

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Published

2025-02-21

Issue

No. 1 (2025): Edge of the Glacier

Section

Articles