Sofya gollan biography examples in english

In this blog series, theatre maker Sofya Gollan offers an insightful commentary on the Disability Arts community and her experience as a Griffin Studio Artist. Disability Arts: it is a sector of the art world that takes on Disability as its theme. My relationship with the Disability Arts sector has never been straightforward even though I have identified as having a disability as a professional creator for many years now, being deaf, while also being an actor, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Disability is one strand that weaves into the other identities of mother, mediocre cook, book reader, filmmaker, seamstress, VR and science enthusiast, and with sneaky appreciation, cats taking down toddlers on the interwebs. The cultural context when I started out was if you had a disability and wanted a serious career in the arts it was essential to prove it would not impact on the work or collaboration and was irrelevant.

The common opinion was if you had a disability, artistic practice was seen as a therapeutic activity that alleviated the frustrations and limitations of a small and diminished life. Not a career or a calling to express a unique viewpoint or opinion of the world.

Sofya gollan biography examples in english: An award-winning filmmaker and a graduate

I understood you were allowed to have every point of view except that of Disability as a valuable and essential contribution to the arts culture. Depicting a life lived with disability was not a world-view that was sought out, cultivated, or more importantly, bought. So I made work that did not directly allude to disability, even though being deaf I identify as disabled because it has prevented me many times from participating fully in society and the opportunities that are contained therein.

But now, ironically, on a professional level, identifying with the Disability Arts movement in recent years has been the re-ignition of my career.