Christine Sun Kim coined the term sound etiquette: the social do’s and don’ts of the hearing world that Deaf people are expected to abide by, in order to exist quietly and discreetly.
Through lyric, babble, slam poetry, and soundless closed-captioning, this exhibition seeks to unravel social norms associated with sonic communication. In situations where comprehensible language proves to be insufficient—too linear, too gendered, too exclusionary—these three artists turn to new communication methods.