Mélanie Joseph thesis defence: "Les invisibles entre réel et fiction: les représentations des sourd-e-s à l'épreuve de l'art et de la sociologie" (The invisible between reality and fiction: representations of the deaf put to the test by art and sociology)

Wednesday 18 December 2024 | from 2pm | CRAC Occitanie, Sète

We are pleased to inform you that the defence of Mélanie Joseph's thesis entitled " Les invisibles entre réel et fiction: les représentations des sourd-e-s à l'épreuve de l'art et de la sociologie" (The invisible between reality and fiction: representations of the deaf put to the test by art and sociology)will be held on Wednesday 18 December 2024, from 2pm, at the Centre régional d'art contemporain Occitanie (26 Quai Aspirant Herber, 34200 Sète), in the mediation room.

Summary:

This research into the representations of deaf people in France, a linguistic and cultural minority, lies at the crossroads of several disciplines such as sociology, history and art sciences, and is linked to the fields of Deaf Studies and Disability Studies. From a research-creation perspective, the analytical approach is supported and complemented by the production of an original artistic work. In order to contextualise the subject, the thesis proposes a state of research and a reflexive approach to the way in which it has been approached. From an empirical point of view, the research is based on observation and analysis of the presence of the deaf in television between 1950 and 1970, the period known as the 'Chape de Plomb'. Exploring the television archives at the INA will enable us to question the representations of deaf people, in particular by describing and understanding the way in which communication about them is constructed in the media, history, institutions and society. The aim of the thesis is to provide keys to reading and to produce original results that integrate the discourse of deaf people and their representations from a Deaf perspective. The aim is also to examine the power relationships that shape and regulate these representations, their circulation and reception. The method chosen to explore this question, 'video-elicitation', makes it possible to collect and preserve deaf speech. The artistic work (performances, videos, etc.) enables the issues and constraints involved in translating deaf speech and its orality to be shared in a sensitive way, and reveals the plurality of realities experienced and perceived by the deaf. Analysis and artistic production intersect, overlap and complement each other to produce new, original knowledge, enabling us to renew the state of knowledge about the deaf 'condition' from yesterday to today. 

Key words :

Deaf; minority; speech; video-elicitation; translation; archive; sign language; representation; creation; visual arts. 

The jury is made up of :

• Diane BEDOINUniversity Professor, Université Rouen Normandie (Rapporteur)
• Julie CHATEAUVERTAssociate Professor, Université Saint-Paul, Canada (Examiner)
• Arthur GILLETArtist (Examiner)
• Sylvia GIRELUniversity Professor, Aix-Marseille University, MESOPOLHIS (Thesis supervisor)
• Camille LLOBETArtist (Examiner)
• Anne MARCELLINIProfessor, University of Montpellier (Rapporteur)
• Jean-Claude RUGGIRELLOArtist-Teacher, Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille (thesis co-director)
• Éric VILLAGORDOUniversity Professor, Université Paul Valéry (Chairman of the jury)

Hybrid format: link available below under "Details of the online event"..