Projects tagged
Disability
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Jay Allan Zimmerman
Read more: Jay Allan ZimmermanZimmerman a composer who uses art, dance, tech, and even robots in his shows. You might call this interdisciplinary. Wagner called it total art, or gesamtkunstwerk. The son of a midwestern piano teacher, Zimmerman literally grew up over the piano…
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Sunaura Taylor
Read more: Sunaura TaylorSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Read more: Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By EarThe Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller. These were some of the first works made available to people who were blind in the 1930s, when the Library of Congress, in partnership with the American…
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Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood
Read more: Brain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine SherwoodBrain Work: A Meditation on the Painting of Katherine Sherwood by Georgina Kleege A psychiatrist friend of mine looking at a painting by Katherine Sherwood hanging near my front door, instantly saw it as an image of the brain, and…
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Lost and Sound
Read more: Lost and Sound1 in 7 of us will experience some kind of deafness in our lifetime. So what would happen to the music you love, if your hearing was lost? Made by a partially deaf filmmaker after the future of her own…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkI love New York. When I was younger, the city was my playground. You could find me on any given weekend catching brunch with a friend at a café, going to an East Village restaurant for dinner, and then hopping…
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AXS Lab
Read more: AXS LabPeople with disabilities often suffer a ‘civil death’ due to exclusion primarily related to physical barriers of the built environment. AXS Map is building a social movement around inclusion for people with physical disabilities. AXS Map is a crowd-sourced platform…
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Christine Sun Kim
Read more: Christine Sun KimFor artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed…
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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him
Read more: Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to himA deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: ‘A world without barriers is our dream’. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkIn 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier…