Hannah Weiner

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Hannah Weiner was an American poet and performance artist who integrated sign language, handwriting, and experimental notation into concrete poetry and staged performance. Born deaf, she developed a practice centered on typography and the materiality of the printed page, creating work that fundamentally challenged how texts are read and accessed. Her writings dissolved boundaries between visual composition, linguistic meaning, and embodied gesture, treating the page itself as a space of active performance rather than passive inscription.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago