Árbol Sordo

In Spanish, Catalan, Spanish Sign Language, and Catalan Sign Language.

Jaume Ferrete Vázquez works as an artist, teacher and researcher around the notion of voice, through performance, listening sessions, archives, workshops, conversations, sound works and websites. He has collaborated with various institutions (MACBA, MNCARS, MUAC UNAM, Secession, UOC, BAU, UPV/EHU, TEOR/éTica, etc.) and has received multiple awards including Generación 2016, Becas Leonardo Fundación BBVA and OSIC. He is currently developing research on synthetic voices and performance.

In Árbol Sordo, an archive of jokes in Mexican Sign Language is embodied, unraveling ways of understanding, misunderstanding, half-understanding and not understanding at all… Árbol Sordo is part of the Voz Sorda project, which addresses how Deaf political cultures, organized around their sign languages, challenge the association between political voice and orality.

Árbol Sordo was developed in 2016 as part of the Voz Sorda project, thanks to a residency from the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, and presented in 2107 at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of Universidad Autónoma de México. The Voz Sorda project began in 2015 during a cultural residency at the now defunct Casa Vecina in the historic center of Mexico City.