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Vanessa Fletcher Dion: Finding Language

  • Vanessa Dion Fletcher

  • Kavya Yoganathan

  • Hannah Fowlie

  • Michelle Peek

  • Marion Gruner

In this interactive performance, artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher considers how systemic colonial oppression intersects with her relationship to language as a learning disabled person.

Finding Language was performed at the Cripping the Arts symposium in January 2019 in Toronto.

This video was made in collaboration with Vanessa Dion Fletcher. Video footage by Kavya Yoganathan and Hannah Fowlie. Photography by Michelle Peek. Editing by Marion Gruner of Billion Ideas. Music by Ziibiwan. Produced by Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life.