Deaf Explorer
Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Category: Artists
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DEAF EXPLORER are hosting their first ever online festival of Deaf artists and Deaf arts. Join the team and amazing Deaf artists on 3rd – 6th December 2020. All events are free and live events can be booked through Eventbrite (links below.) Thursday 3rd December 2020 7pm – Festival launch: We are Deaf Explorer Meet…
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Arts Council England opened for application’s for grant in late August, in September Deaf Explorer worked with Matty Gurney to submit his application to adapt “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest”. His interest, is in the novel’s critique of the mental ward as an instrument of oppression comparable to the prison; It’s an idea that…
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If you would like to watch Rinkoo Barpaga’s online version of his performance Made In India Britain at Crystal Palace Festival on catch up, you can do that here: https://youtu.be/AxfKBjiTc70 Made In India BritainSince leaving home in Birmingham, Rinkoo Barpaga has moved around England a lot, determined to find somewhere to settle. Along the way,…
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Haptic Fish Tank R&D – End of Project Sharing 2-3pm, 21st October 2020 Eventbrite link If you want to attend the online sharing, telling us why you interested, places are limited. Over the last 9 months deaf-blind artist Finn has been collaborating with The Institute of Coding and the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry…
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With the support of an Unlimited Micro Commission, Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings will make an experimental short film, that will tell a number of stories. It will rexamine the artists intersectionality through the lense of her father and amplified by Black Lives Matter. It will be a space on film that expose’s the issues from the perspective…
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Video – Audio description. Maral is an Iranian woman with dark brown curly hair to her shoulders. She wears black framed round glasses and bright red lipstick. She is dressed in a black long sleeved T-shirt and jeans. She is sitting on a bench in a park with green bushes in the background.
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Due to Covid 19 and the closure of schools in Pakistan, as well as the involvement of multi-disciplinary artist Rinkoo Barpaga, the R&D has transformed into a photography project. Deaf people are the hidden citizens of the world. They operate using their own languages, cultures and communities. Though engagement with the deaf community through the…
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In August 2020, Maral was commissioned to make a digital sharing of her Arts Council England funded R&D, making fine bone china jewellery to be worn over the ears. Working with local Birmingham film maker, Sima Gonsai and Chris Bartholomew (Deaf Explorer’s ‘go to’ sound designer) Maral has created a performance film introducing Maral’s experience…
