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Article
"Visual Translation and the Amazing Broken Telephone Kaleidoscope": A Dialogue
Theatre Research in Canada
(2023)
Abstract
Kat Germain considers media accessibility strategies while translating signed music by Deaf artists, drawing on her experience as a visual translator/interpreter and audio describer for Blind and partially sighted audience members. Germain queries: What is the disparity between a Deaf artist’s (nonvocal) work and a Blind audience member’s experience of it? When does visual translation stop being a copy, and when does it become a work of art in its own right if the audience member’s only experience is the audible translation, an unavoidably a creative act? Along with Germain, the panel (Deaf scholar/artist, Blind scholar/creator/audience member, and a sound engineer) discusses aspects of ethics and aesthetics of accessibility in the arts.
Keywords
- Signed Music,
- Signed Language,
- Performing Arts,
- Visual Translation,
- Blind People
Disciplines
Publication Date
2023
DOI
10.3138/tric-2023-0015
Publisher Statement
University of Toronto
Citation Information
Kat Germain, Jody H Cripps, Jessica Watkin and David Stinson. ""Visual Translation and the Amazing Broken Telephone Kaleidoscope": A Dialogue" Theatre Research in Canada Vol. 44 Iss. 1 (2023) p. 126 - 138 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jody-cripps/7/