Hearing Impairements

Integrating Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals

Audiovisuals and Interactives

Roz, 2004: Music video with no captions or visual cues

In this video installation by Burt Barr, shown in the Twister exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art, deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals are being misleaded by not providing them with visual cues to understand what is happening in the video. The fact that is a woman dubbing the voice of a man is completed disregarded by people who are deaf.

Videoclip of woman singing in the shower

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Transcript:

The videoclip depicts a young woman (the former Roz LeBlanc) standing in the shower, water pouring over her head and shoulders. The woman opens her mouth and begins to sing. Instead of her own voice, however, we hear the deep, resonant voice of soul singer Otis Clay. The woman lip-synchs the lyrics to Clay's recording of the tragic song "The Banks of Ohio" which recounts the tale of a man who murdered the woman he loved.

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