Garage invites deaf and hard-of-hearing authors to take part in the new season of the project Oral History. During the three-month project, participants, guided by experts, will make a magazine on the life and culture of the deaf from the 1990s to the present day.
The project Oral History allows people from the deaf community to express themselves as active creators of culture and researchers and to contribute to the representation of deaf culture. The goal of the third season of the project is to publish a collective magazine that will present people’s experiences through visual and fiction stories spanning the period from the 1990s to today.
Participants will be selected through an open call. The course has been developed for deaf and hard of hearing authors from a variety of backgrounds: artists, designers, photographers, journalists, poets, and writers. Both completed works (photographs, texts, videos) and projects to be collaboratively developed in the course will be accepted.
The topics that the project can cover include: sign languages, bilingualism and the language choices of representatives of the community, deaf culture, deaf community hubs, personal perspectives on the key figures or events of recent decades, fashion and style in the deaf community, modes of communication in the community before and after smartphones (fax machines, pagers, cell phones), life and infrastructure at schools for the deaf, use of assistive technology by the deaf and hard of hearing in the 1990s (hearing aids, vibrating alarm clocks), deaf theater and art.
Classes will run from October through December, once or twice a week, depending on the month. Participants will receive an honorarium of 10,000 rubles and organizational support during the preparation of the publication.
