Scored in Silence
This work presents a documentation of David Bobier’s performance under the same title, offering the possibility to re-experience the sound from the original performance with the aid of feeling sound belts (provided by the Woodjes Company). The project itself was a collaboration with dancer Chisato Minamimura and relates to the history of the Atomic bomb attacks on Japan in 1945. Their devastating impact is examined through the footage collected recently in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as through conversations with the few remaining deaf ‘hibakushas’- the survivors who witnessed the attacks first hand. Unaware of what was happening in those fateful days, their perspectives and their lives thereafter are now shared for the first time in Scored in Silence.
David Bobier Short Bio
David is a media artist with an MFA whose creative practice focuses on researching and developing vibrotactile technology as a creative medium. In 2014 he established VibraFusionLab (VFL) in London, Ontario, a creative multi-media, multi-sensory centre. Since then he has gained a reputation as a leader in accessibility for the Deaf and Disability Arts movement in Canada and abroad. His projects are exhibited across Canada and internationally and have been supported by the leading Canadian institutions and foundations. He has served in advisory roles in developing Deaf and Disability Arts Equity programs for both Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.