JOSEPH Mélanie

Contact details

melaniejoseph@protonmail.com

As an artist-researcher, her current work lies at the crossroads of Deaf studies, visual sociology and video performance.
She is particularly interested in the representation of minorities and the ethical issues inherent in reclaiming invisible voices.
She explores the relations of domination exercised over deviant bodies and the way in which they receive and suffer injunctions to conform to the norm.

 

Functions

2025-2026 Post-Doctorate Deaf Studies Incubator, Lecturer and researcher at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA

2019-2024 PhD in the practice and theory of literary and artistic creation, under the supervision of Sylvia Girel, Fabrice Métais (ED 354, PRISM) and Jean-Claude Ruggirello (Beaux-Arts de Marseille)

Thesis subject : " 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)

Defense on December 18, 2024, at the CRAC Occitanie in Sète.

2019-2022 Vacant doctoral student at Aix-Marseille University

2022-2023 Extension of doctoral grant, A*Midex Foundation

2019-2022 Vacation Licence professionnelle Intervention sociale : accompagnement de publics spécifiques

2021-2022 Associate researcher status at the Institut National d'Audiovisuel

Areas of research

  • Sociology of Disability
  • Visual Sociology
  • Theory of art
  • Artistic specialisation: Video Art, Performance
  • Deaf Studies

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Research networks

  • 2022-Present Member of the Deaf Studies Collective, EHESS

Organisation of scientific events

  • Organiser of a study day in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, PRISM and MESOPOLHIS " Creating with signed languages: translating against violence". e.s: Salma Mochtari (Collectif Qalqalah), Julie Chateauvert (St Paul's University, Canada) and Olivier Schétrit (EHESS, Paris), 16 May 2023, Marseille.
  • Co-organiser with the curator Veronica Valentini, workshop, Frac Lorraine, 4 and 5 November 2022, Metz.
  • Scientific mediation, Festival des sciences, 14 and 15 October 2022, Marseille.
  • Co-organiser with Eliabel Agard, "Chantiers de thèse", Lames, MMSH, 2020-2021, Aix-en-Provence.

Productions

Articles

  • With DMITRIEVA Tamara, "What 'devalued futures' for the deaf? Reflections on the common world", Multitudes, 2024/1 (No. 94), pp. 141-143. DOI : 10.3917/mult.094.0141.
  • Proposal for a journal article, "Creating a space for a silent community to speak: the challenges of research-creation", Mutations en Méditerannée (MeM), currently undergoing peer review.
  • "Poésies Sourdes, Revue GPS, 11 June 2020.
  • "Peuple exposé", PiLAB, ESADMM edition, November 2018, Marseille.

Editorial Committee

  •  PiLAB, ESADMM edition, November 2018, Marseille.

Communications

  • "Les archives, un lieu de rencontre entre mémoire, création et traduction", Les Deaf Studies en question. Traductologie, pratiques artistiques et langues des signes, EHESS, 19 February 2025, Paris.
  • "Minority narratives and institutionalised archives: how to collect deaf speech without betraying it? "Validisme institutionnel, handicap et musée, REMED seminar, AMU, 14 February 2025, Marseille.
  • "Les parcours biographiques : une approche sociologique à travers la création artistique", Seminar on Deafness and sign language: political, philosophical and sociolinguistic analyses. 17. Formes de contestation et politiques de réparation, EHESS, 2 May 2024, Paris.
  • "Recherche Création sur les archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970: recueillir la parole sourde à propos des images du passé", 11th ALTER conference, 29-30 June 2023, Paris.
  • "French sign language and books", Book workshops, BNF, 22 November 2022, Paris.
  • "La parole des sourds sur leur représentation dans les archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970", Handicap(s) et Sociétés Young Researchers Seminar, 6 April 2022, Paris.
  • "Where are the Deaf? A contemporary look at French television from 1950-1975", Colloquium "Censuring the Arts, Framing Bodies", Ecole Nationale des Chartres, 4 and 5 February 2022, Paris.
  • "La vidéo élicitation comme méthode de réappropriation de la parole des sujets Sourds vis à vis des images issus des archives télévisuelles des années 1950-1970", seminar Les Deaf Studies en question, EHESS, 12 January 2022, Paris.

Poster/ Feedback session

  • Poster: "Translating against violence: the stakes of a restitution of a minority group's speech", Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference, 6-8 September 2023, Vienna.
  • Feedback session: "Invisibility between reality and fiction: the deaf body challenged by arts and sociology", Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference, 20 June 2021, UQAM, Montreal.

Exhibitions

  • - En dehors", group show, CRAC Occitanie, 5 October 2024 to 5 January 2025, Sète.
  • "Voir ou Appréhender", solo exhibition, Turbulence, February and March 2023, Marseille.
  • "Le.s corps", group show, curated by GloriaCollectif, Coco Velten, 11 to 26 March 2022, Marseille.
  • Performance, "Créations Sourdes", Festival Les Eauditives, 22 May 2022, Toulon.
  • Performance at the Scientifica Sciences Arts day, at Le Cube, 18 June 2022, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Contribution piece (video), Queer Disability Studies Network Launch Event, November 2021, London.
  • Performance-Poetry in LSF with Marine COMTE, Festival les Eauxditives, August 2020, Toulon.
  • Impromptu" exhibition with Audrey Taguet, la gare/le quai 294M9, June and July 2020, Saint-Maurice-lès-Châteauneuf.
    https://esoxlucius-art.blogspot.com/2019/11/jusqua-la-mi-juillet-nous-proposons.html
  • Online exhibition "Stay behind your screens 2", April 2020, Marseille.
  • Performed Lecture "Entropotopia" with Primavera Gomes Caldas Newton Offices, June 2019, Marseille.
  • "Glissement de terrain" residency report, Galerie ArtCade Bains Douches, May 2019, Marseille.
  • "PiLAB Création Video Programming" Jean Rouch Festival, Mucem, December 2018, Marseille.
    http://www.mucem.org/programme/programmation-video-pilab-creation
  • "ACUERDO TÁCITO" La Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, el Sistema de Bibliotecas y el Proyecto Centro Cultural, May 2018, Bogotà, Colombia.
  • "Rencontres Photographiques de Cassis", 4th edition, Salle voutée, February 2018, Cassis.
  • "With the eyes of a deaf man", Mac Val, January 2017, Paris. http://www.macval.fr/francais/evenements/archives/2017/article/avec-les-yeux-d-unsourd#h3_tdm
  • "Around the score: Rendez-Vous with ESADMM", Videodrome, November 2016, Marseille.
    http://www.videodrome2.fr/autour-de-la-partition-rendez-vous-avec-lesadmm/
  • "A la reconquête du réel", 10th edition of RISC, Les Variétés, November 2016, Marseille. http://www.pollymaggoo.org/doc_polly/telechargements/risc-
    2016/RISC2016_PROG_A5_PAGES.pdf
  • "Prétexte, Point It", With Valérie Mréjen, Festival Actoral, La Friche De Belle Mai, October 2014, Marseille. https://www.marseilleexpos.com/blog/2014/08/26/valerie-mrejen-et-les-etudiants-delesadmm-au-festival-actoral/
  • "PILAB CRÉATION, 2nd EDITION" - Théâtre National La Criée, November 2013, Marseille.
    http://www.scoop.it/t/esadmm/p/4011004309/2013/11/14/exposition-pilab-creation-a-lacriee-du-vendredi-15-au-dimanche-17-novembre
  • "PiLAB CRÉATION, CAMPUS 2013", MAD, ESADMM gallery, July 2013, Marseille.