Situating deaf-gain: performance and writing in the work of and Aaron Williamson

ABSTRACT This article takes the form of an interview, between performance artist and writer, Aaron Williamson, and the poet, artist and teacher, Larry Lynch. Talking across Williamson’s practice of the last three decades, and its compositional, conceptual, and contextual development, the conversation focusses on the situating of language and writing in, and around, a broad conception of performance. The discussion is further framed by Williamson’s experience as a d/Deaf person, a subject position that invigorates a radical socio-linguistic critique.