Back Issue: March 4, 2005 | Gallaudet alumna Louise Stern recently completed her master’s degree in contemporary art at Sotheby’s in London, England. Her thesis was on deaf artists Joseph Grigely and Aaron Williamson. Stern gave a lecture to the campus community on February 16 entitled, “Aaron Williamson: The Context of Deafness, The Pool of Silence,” based in part on the work she did for her thesis. Her lecture was followed by Williamson’s performance, “Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron,” based on the true story of a wild boy who lived in isolation in the woods near a French village around 1800. According to Williamson, the boy was believed to be deaf and was taken to the Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris where Jean Itard, the famous oralist—and a late convert to sign language—attempted and utterly failed to teach the boy language through oralism. He added that his performance was an exploration of what “legacy” the wild boy might have for deaf people, and perhaps is a “reminder that the history of deaf people is entwined with that of the hearing world’s assertion of their ‘normal’ or ‘correct’ mode of communication” and behavior. Stern and Williamson are shown together after her lecture.  |
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