Faculty Co-Edit New VoCA Journal Issue Exploring Communication and Access

Faculty members Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones have co-edited the newly released Issue 16 of VoCA Journal

Faculty members Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones have co-edited the newly released Issue 16 of VoCA Journal, a digital publication from Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) that advances critical dialogue in the field.

Titled deaf…*, the issue explores expanded understandings of communication, listening, and access through a range of artistic and written contributions. Sylvestre and Jones frame deaf as “a multiplicity of non-normative experiences, vantages, and epistemologies,” using the issue to examine how these perspectives can reshape contemporary art and its audiences.

This issue brings together artists and writers whose work is grounded in lived experience. Through essays, conversations, and creative pieces, they challenge traditional ideas in art and explore accessibility as part of the creative process. Together, the contributions ask what a “deaf* space” could offer art today.

Sylvestre and Jones also contribute their own essay, Towards Cripistemological Captions, further extending the issue’s inquiry into language, perception, and access.

Issue 16 is now available through VoCA Journal.