Horizontal, produced by Pippa Frith and led by Suriya Aisha, is a project that seeks to make high-quality inclusive theatre. Through a range of disciplines, the project seeks to give a voice to those who have a lived experience of chronic invisible disabilities. Aisha and other contributors to the project – ‘The Horizontals’ – gave… Continue reading The Horizontals

After hearing Christine Sun Kim’s comments on borrowing the voice of an interpreter and, reflecting on Aaron Peake’s ideas about creating an expanded sensory encounter with an artwork, I found echoes of their views in the interview with Maria Oshodi, in Shades of Noir’s (SON) Disabled People: The Voice of Many (2020 p. 100). Oshodi… Continue reading Empowered Voices

Christine Sun Kim’s art practice explores sound, translated into other forms through performance, installation, drawings and video. She has been deaf since birth. In her TED talk (2015) she talks about knowing sound through watching the actions and reactions of others. She says that sound can be experienced as a visual image, it can be… Continue reading Listening with Our Eyes

The word ‘pain’ appears multiple times in Khairani Barokka’s 2017 reflections on the tour of her spoken word/performance art show Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee in 2014. The word has a recurrent and persistent presence that tells the reader that for Barokka, pain is pervasive and ever-present. She uses academic Yasmin Gunaratnam’s term “total… Continue reading Telling Stories