Visual
Vernacular
VV (= Visual vernacular), is a a special form of visual storytelling, which is best known in the Deaf culture. The resulting noise in the telling as breathing, laughing, coughing, and the speed of narration will be part of the storytelling. VV supplies through the stories told more about the Deaf community, even if they are delivered in an abstract form.
Saturday
13:00 - 14:30
Gal Naor & Ace Machbaz
Gal Naor is an Israeli Sign Language interpreter, choreographer, theater-maker and founder of The progressive wave performance company. In his pieces he deals with the relations between language, identity and culture. His intensive engagement within the Deaf social circles in Israel and Germany is significantly contributing to his artistic researches. This year, together with his artistic partner Matan Zamir, they are working on Oráculo, the second chapter in their performance trilogy Science of Signs.