LISTENING AS FILMMAKING
[WORKSHOP WITH ALISON O’DANIEL]

Tuesday April 18, 1:30 – 4:30 PM / Communications 139

This workshop will propose ways that complex embodiment and variations in audiences’ reception of film can complicate and complete production. Foregrounded in visual and musical scores, closed and open captions, soundtracks, and storytelling ‘mistakes’ as fluid modes of perception or as assistive listening devices, we will consider the poetic possibility within gaps of information and mis-communication as models for creating. / RSVP to cdar@ucsc.edu if you would like to attend

Alison O’Daniel is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker who builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the auditory. O’Daniel’s film ‘The Tuba Thieves’ had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and is currently on the film festival circuit. 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 Assistant Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

She has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; and others. She has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

She has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.