SHOUTING ISLAND
Vasikkasaari Island is 200 meters away from the shore. On the island’s western beach, facing Kuopio harbour, Aaron Willliamson will stand barely visible from the shore carrying an old ship’s tin megaphone. Using the megaphone Williamson will attempt to communicate to the shore, shouting and hollering about his physical separation from the mainland; the artist fully expects to lose his voice.
Aaron Williamson’s work with performance, objects, place and space is inextricable from his experience of becoming profoundly deaf. His practice takes an interdisciplinary approach remaining open to circumstance and potentially using or combining performance, installation, photography, video, sculpture, text, choreography and digital art.
In the last ten years he has created performances, publications, installations and artist’s videos in Britain, Europe, Japan, Greenland, China and North America. In 1997 he completed his Doctoral thesis on performance, writing and bodily identity. In addition to solo work, he is the Artistic Director of the collective of disability artists, 15mm Films, a member of the international collective of performance artists ‘The Wolf in the Winter’ and collaborates on video making with Katherine Araniello as the ‘The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!’
www.aaronwilliamson.co.uk
