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Examples of Surdist Paintings

This piece of work made by Deaf artist Nancy Rourke was updated to include the second wave of De'Via, Surdism. Rourke updated the painting the include the following in the white swirls:

"SECOND WAVE OF De'VIA, WHAT IS SURDISM?, SOCIAL CHANGE, ARTIVISM, TRUTH BE TOLD, DEAF EXPERIENCE, COLLABORATION, FLY, FLY, SOAR, SOAR, and PAH!"

Arnaud Balard: Founder of Surdism

Arnaud Balard, born in 1970, was the only member of his family who was deaf. He went to school using the oral tradition, and when he turned the age of 9, he had been completely put into a mainstream school and continued this platform of education until he graduated high school. After this, he decided to go to a university in Paris with a deaf program; here is where he learned sign language and his "identity started to grow and continue during [his] time there." Within this program, he found his passion for art and found his identity as a Deaf Artist. He knew that he did not fit in with the Hearing Artist community. He wanted to establish his own Deaf art identity, but when he started Balard was keeping the art to himself and not showing it to the world. When he had learned about De'Via, and the concepts of Audism and Deafhood had been exposed to him, he knew he had "identified something" and "things started to come together". This was the "crystallization [he] had been looking for". He started showing his work to the public after this realization. In May 2009, at the Festival de National in Remmes France, he exhibit his work pubically in a booklet. That same year he published the Surdism Manifesto.

Origin of the word "Surdism"

The word Surdism comes from the Latin word "surdus" meaning "deaf" or "the blocking of the ear". "Ism" comes from the "ideas and movements humans have engaged in to show their values, whether it is positive or negative."