Auslan storytellers building accessibility from the ground up', ArtsHub Australia
How can decolonisation strategies empower Deaf communities and help build an all-inclusive exhibition? We spoke with two artists leading this vision.
22 Jul 2022
What I Wish I’d Told You is an exhibition that has recently opened at Footscray Community Arts in Melbourne’s diverse west side. But more than that, it’s a national project using decolonising strategies and truth-telling to empower and affirm experiences of Deafhood.
Led by Deaf artist Chelle Destefano and Deaf advocate and artist Claire Bridge, the project engaged more than 70 Deaf storytellers and hearing allies to pave a new path of accessibility which centrWhat I Wish I’d Told You is an exhibition that has recently opened at Footscray Community Arts in Melbourne’s diverse west side. But more than that, it’s a national project using decolonising strategies and truth-telling to empower and affirm experiences of Deafhood.
image: Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano, with Dion Galea and Walt Kadiki in What I Wish I’d Told You, 2022, multi-channel video projections with audio, installation view. Image supplied.