Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!
ALISON O’DANIEL is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker working across sound, moving image, sculpture, installation and performance, whose work is generated from a deep engagement with sonority, acoustics, access, and complex embodiment. Informed by her experiences of being d/Deaf/hard of hearing and collaborations with others on the d/Deaf spectrum – including composers, athletes, musicians, and actors – Alison builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary that reveals a politics of sound that exceeds the auditory. Her latest, multi-awarded film The Tuba Thieves (2023), uses real-life tuba thefts in Los Angeles as a springboard to critically explore how the history of sound segregations is deeply embedded into urban spaces through the design and mediation of sound, how sound travels through these substrates and who is allowed or obligated to hear it. O’Daniel is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
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