Imagining new accessible worlds

Deaf Interiors

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Deaf Interiors is a multidisciplinary online exhibition showcasing the culminating work of a three-month online incubator with six Deaf Canadian artists.

In response to the world health crisis and the social distancing measures that exacerbated feelings of isolation at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the six artists gathered online with facilitators Peter Owusu-Ansah and Sage Lovell to share stories, generate ideas, and create work that demonstrates the interior world of Deaf culture, activism and human connection.

Presented by Creative Users Projects and Tangled Art + Disability, Deaf Interiors is a digital adaptation of Crip Interiors, a site-specific installation of grid-like arranged containers that individually and collectively highlight the ways that Deaf and disabled artists negotiate accessibility in the cityscape.

Deaf Interiors was produced by Creative Users Projects in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability, and is a Signature Project of the Cultural Hotspot, produced in partnership with the City of Toronto, with support from Bodies in Translation, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.