Alison O’Daniel (b. 1979, Miami, FL) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work spans narrative, sculpture, installation, and performance. She holds an MFA from UC Irvine, a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and a Postgraduate Diploma from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. O’Daniel’s work has been presented at Centre Pompidou, Art in General, Knockdown Center, The Nightingale (Chicago), MOCAD (Detroit), NYU, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology and other venues. She has received grants from the California Community Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, Center of Cultural Innovation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and The Art Matters Foundation and is the recipient of the 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Creative Capital awards.
O’Daniel uses her own experiences with hearing loss as a productive narrative tool in expanding the definitions of audio, sound, and captioning. In her work, O’Daniel reckons with sound both conceptually and as a medium, studying audience reactions to sound or the absence of it. The artist collaborates with hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf composers, performers, athletes, and musicians in order to highlight the loss or re-creation of information as it passes through various channels. Through her work, O’Daniel attempts to reveal the often hidden politics inscribed within a culture that takes hearing for granted and elevates the visual over the aural. She looks at captions as a third narrative space next to sound and visuals and hopes that more filmmakers will utilize them. alisonodaniel.com
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