i am an artist-researcher working with theatre, video, ceramics, and sound exploring bodies that experience other ways of being in the world, dysfluent languages, and time that bends.
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i am an artist-researcher working with theatre, video, ceramics, and sound exploring bodies that experience other ways of being in the world, dysfluent languages, and time that bends.
PROJECTS
GLOSSARY
STUDIO
BIOGRAPHY AND CV
collage cut drawings by winnie truong. graphic
design by vicky lee.
THE DESIGNTO FESTIVAL + CRITICAL DISTANCE GALLERY
jan 28 2027
an exhibition
GALLERY TO BE ANNOUNCED
mar 11 - apr 24, 2027
an interdisciplinary dance-theatre performance
THE NANCY & ED JACKMAN PERFORMANCE CENTRE
jun 10 - 13, 2027
in advance of the dance-theatre premiere, audience goers are invited to listen to the project’s soundscape. this will take place during a deep listening session and an exhibition in early 2027.
a deep listening session
in partnership with the designto festival, you are invited to encounter the tension and joys of disabled speech by listening to a 30-minute soundscape in silent disco style, followed by a conversation with the soundscape’s co-creators graeme dyck and jennifer lindsay. this session will be accompanied by animation by winnie truong and it will run for one night only.
when you listen to the soundscape, you will become immersed in four worlds of disabled speech. each world will be introduced and characterized by specific sound cues: the sounds of a bus, a passenger asking a question, and a pause, followed by water in the first world, earth and wind in the second world, an electroacoustic composition in the third world, and a combination of all sound cues in the fourth world. all sound cues overlap with language-based field recordings.
these worlds encounter a body with disabled speech for the first time, unmake it by unlearning coping strategies invested in cure, delight in it with euphoric embrace, and reimagine it with tenderness and possibility.
after listening to the soundscape as a group, graeme and jennifer will share how the soundscape came to be and where it is going. then, they will open the conversation to explore your sensory experience with the soundscape, as well as possibilities of disabled speech. as a group, you will be invited to consider: what does disabled speech sound like? what does it create? how do you (speak) like a palace?
this deep listening session is supported by critical distance. learn more about how this project prioritizes access here.
an exhibition
you are invited to listen to the material sounds of disabled speech after brain injury by listening to a 30-minute soundscape that doubles as a sonic-self portrait. this time, the soundscape will be housed in a gallery in montréal for 10 weeks.
when you listen to the HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE soundscape, you will embody a dysfluent experience through your hearing sense. a dysfluent experience is synonymous with an experience of disabled speech. that is not to suggest that you will mirror the experience of a person with disabled speech after brain injury. rather, you will become attuned to the nuances and consquences of it.
the title of the soundscape was born from collaging language-based field recordings that engage in the subject of language dysfluency. field recordings including phrases like “i am losing language; i am trying to find the word; speak memory” to name a few. deciphered: ‘how do we’ is a guide and a demonstration. ‘(speak)’ counters ‘empty speech’. empty speech is a historically harmful medical term used to describe anguage dysfluency like aphasia. it is still used in present day. ‘(speak)’ appears in brackets to represent the inner happenings of disabled speech by people with aphasia as anything but, empty. ‘palace’ is an ode to the concept of memory palace driven further by possibilities of crip imagination, futurism and worldmaking.
driven by the desire to affirm and celebrate the underground places that disabled speech goes, this soundscape is for everyone, and especially those who speak with silence, pause, and repetitions.
an interdisciplinary dance-theatre performance
details coming soon.
writer, director, and producer: jennifer lindsay
choreographer: patricia allison
performer: stephanie harkness
composer: graeme dyck
visual artist, set designer, and animator: winnie truong
creative technologist: dan tapper
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