Aaron Williamson

Aaron Williamson is inspired by his experience of becoming deaf and by a politicised yet humorous sensibility towards disability. Williamson devises unique artworks that are created on-site immediately prior to their public presentation. In the last ten years he has created over 300 performances, videos, installations and publications in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. In a 1998 talk at University of California San Diego, Williamson coined the term ‘Deaf Gain’ as a counter-emphasis to ‘hearing loss’. http://www.aaronwilliamson.org