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WABP · When Accessibility Becomes Performance: Sign Language Interpreting in Music and Live Concerts as Performative Rewriting

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-11-01 → 2023-10-31
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When Accessibility Becomes Performance: Sign Language Interpreting in Music and Live Concerts as Performative Rewriting

The aim of the WABP project was to analyse the practice of sign language interpreter-performers who translate music and live concerts into sign language to facilitate access to music for deaf signers. The project set out to investigate ways in which interpreter-performer transpose music, including nonverbal elements of a musical text, into a visual form of performing art. What elements do they include in their signed interpretation, and how? The main aim was to identify the strategies used by sign language interpreter-performers to embody lyrics and nonverbal elements of the text. The research outputs of the WABP project are relevant both for scholars and practitioners alike. The WABP project has provided Translation Studies scholars with a theoretical framework to analyse and understand the practice of interpreting songs into sign language. Through the WABP project the notion that performativity is an element and a carrier of accessibility has been theorised. By combining theories in Translation Studies, Performance Philosophy, and Accessibility Studies the practice of interpreting songs into sign language has been recognised as a performative event. The same theories were then applied to the work of the translator more broadly, and that has enabled the theorisation of the act of translation itself as a performative event. The research output of WABP is also relevant for practitioners as it will enable them to see what strategies are used in different countries and different sign languages and that could inform their own practice. The social-relevance objective of the WABP project is to give visibility to and highlight the relevance of an interpreting practice that could potentially increase participation in the arts for deaf signers. In accordance with the rationale behind the the project, the logo for WABP was designed by a disabled and deaf signer, musician and artist who writes and translates music in Auslan (Australian Sign Language), to provide the visual perspective of a person who lives music through their eyes.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The aim of the WABP project is to analyse the work of sign language interpreters-performers who translate a hearing-centric music world into a visual one by transposing songs and live concerts into sign language. WABP seeks to identify ways in which interpreters-performers embody nonverbal elements of a text (rhythm, timbre, etc.), which I call “patterns of performativity”. The findings of the project will inform the training of future sign language interpreters who wish to specialise in this specific translation practice, thus contributing to an increased participation of the D/deaf and hard-of-hearing, one of the most under-served minorities, in the arts. While in audio-visual translation Accessibility is a prolific area of research, no Translation Studies scholar has yet analysed sign language interpreting in music, both as an actual performance and as a translation practice, to allow D/deaf and hard-of-hearing to experience the multiplicity of the semiotic signs in songs and music performance events. WABP addresses this gap in the scholarship, and will thus contribute to the advancement of Translation Studies. Working across disciplines, I will identify patterns of performativity which enable interpreters-performers to translate music into an entirely visual art form fully accessible to the D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people, in the awareness that it takes a hearing Theatre Translation scholar to identify patterns of performativity, but only the D/deaf community can decide if those patterns meet their needs in relation to entertainment activities such as music and concert attendance. WABP will be therefore carried out in collaboration with the local D/deaf community to ensure that the project findings will increase Translation Studies scholars' understanding of what constitutes equal access to and full enjoyment of music and music performance events for the D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

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