LOUD silence
2014–2015
Artists
Shary Boyle (Toronto), Darrin Martin (San Francisco), Alison O’Daniel (Los Angeles), Christine Sun Kim (Berlin/New York)
This exhibition included prints, drawings, sculptures, videos, audio works and several film installations, and featured work by four artists who have different relationships to deafness and hearing-impairedness. These artists consider how the binary of loudness and silence might be transformed in politicized ways through deafness. The stereotypical view of the deaf experience is that they live a life of total silence, where they retain little to no concept of sound. But on the contrary, deaf people actually know a lot about sound, and sound informs and inhabits their world just as much as the next person. Through these artworks, the artists aim to loudly explode the myth of a silent deaf world, and they seek to trouble just how “inaudible” sound really is through their own visceral experiences of it.