Bricks, Hands, and History: Artists reclaim deaf identity at the Wellcome Collection

An exhibition opens with a housing brick with the date 1880 inscribed on it — a repudiation of a notorious education conference in 1880 that arguably set back education for deaf people for several decades.The Milan Conference gathered educators from around the world to debate the merits of oral education vs sign language for deaf people and, somewhat biased in its makeup, voted to discourage the use of sign language.
Now largely seen as a bad mistake, and two artists, Christine Sun Kim and