Community of Reception
Online Conference
Fia/Sophia Neises and Zwoisy Mears-Clarke cordially invite you to a one-day online conference as part of the Community of Reception. For over two years, this community of blind, low vision and sighted artists and activists has been researching the art form of audio description. This conference manifests the wish to bring the political dimensions of audio description in the dance and performance field into the spotlight and discuss them with exciting guests.
Panel 1: Blind and Deaf Dramaturgy in Dance and Performance
10:30 - 12:30
Languages: German, DGS, Interpreted in Englisch
The panel invites participants to reflect on radical processes of rethinking and reinventing. Three established performing arts practitioners will share their experiences with artistic processes in which they have incorporated dramaturgy for blind and deaf audiences. Both opportunities and challenges will be addressed. And in the spirit of sustainability, structural and institutional issues will also be discussed.
Panelists: Benjamin van Bebber, Pia Jendreizik, Pernille Sonne
Hosts: Fia/Sophia Neise
Panel 2: Anti-racism and audio description in dance and performance
14:00 - 16:00
Languages: English, Interpreted in German and DGS
This panel will address the question of what role audio description can play in anti-racist practices. The panelists will discuss how audio descriptions can challenge power relations, avoid stereotypes, and make diverse perspectives tangible. The focus is not only on what is described and how, but equally on who is doing the describing, in order to question the political dimension of the so-called “objective” or “neutral” assignment. Together, the panelists will talk about how audio description consciously addresses these dimensions and can itself be both an artistic and an anti-racist practice based on solidarity.
Panelists: Monique Smith-Mcdowell, Amy Zayed, Kayla Hamilton
Hosts: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
The event is produced by Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Fia/Sophia Neises, Kampnagel and tanzhaus nrw.
