Foreword

The articles gathered in the present issue of Afterall interrogate and challenge the imposition of normative or dominant modes of being, perception and expression. The artists, art practices and ideas investigated work, in various ways, to enable forms of communication and living that have been historically and often violently disabled by society. An important thread running through the issue concerns the reconfiguration of voice, language and sound in art practices that centre the perspective of D/deaf and/or non-verbal communicators. In moving away from a purely logocentric and sonic conception of these three interrelated terms, their multimodal, plural and unbounded articulations are revealed.