Breaking Up
2020
3.01 minutes
single-channel video, 4K UHD video, colour, no sound
Artist Statement
The silent film, “Break Up” explores the idiosyncratic experience of connection and communication in an era where this process is becoming increasingly impersonal through social media. With an increased reliance on English in a textual form to communicate and deliver information, many deaf people who struggle with English felt the gap between the Deaf world and the hearing world widen immeasurably. Through a cathartic self-dialogue, the Artist Sue Jo Wright explores her unique and traumatic experience of how social media is paradoxically both an incredible gift and detrimental weapon, and its part in devaluing and negating her Deaf identity, as symbolised by the “sad, long goodbye” to her own hand which is the essence of her own identity.
Exhibitions
2022 “Invisible” Airspace Projects
AWARD
2021 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Auslan and captions
Audio description