Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture

超越视觉：失明与扩展的雕塑

• 批准号: AH/Y005856/1
• 负责人: Ken Wilder
• 金额: $ 28.95万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY005856%2F1
• 关键词: Beyond; Visual; Blindness; Expanded; Sculpture

The proposal is for an exhibition and public engagement activities that will explore how contemporary sculpture facilitates sensory engagements beyond the visual. The exhibition is programmed for the main galleries at the Henry Moore Institute (HMI) for 2025-6, and will be preceded by a research season and an extended consultation process. While we identify blind and partially blind people as a primary audience, the proposal is not an exhibition for the blind, but rather sets out not to exclude an audience marginalised by exhibitions where beholders are unable to touch or interact with the works. The exhibition, entitled Beyond the Visual, aims to enhance the tactile and non-visual sensory engagement of all audiences, consistent with Georgina Kleege's arguments about the wider cultural value of 'what blindness brings to art' (Kleege 2018). This constitutes an innovative form of knowledge exchange which reverses established trajectories and underpins our attitude to a whole range of public engagement activities (delivered, collaboratively, by blind and non-blind practitioners). We will also address the underrepresentation of blind and partially blind artists in existing sculpture archives (including those held by HMI), and will compile a database of sculptural works by blind artists, alongside works by non-blind artists explicitly addressing the affordances of blindness in relation to sculptural practice. We will also revisit the 'tactility versus opticality' debate within sculpture, and in so doing the exhibition seeks not only to be an exemplar of inclusivity-confronting prohibitions on touching works-but to counter the notion of touch as merely a 'compensatory' sense in the absence of vision. The project will therefore conduct new research into the relation between sculpture, touch and blindness, and in so doing re-evaluate what kind of entity sculpture is.

该提案是为了一个展览和公众参与活动，将探索当代雕塑如何促进视觉以外的感官参与。这次展览计划于2025-2006年在亨利·摩尔研究所(HMI)的主要画廊举行，在此之前将有一个研究季节和一个延长的咨询过程。虽然我们将盲人和部分失明的人确定为主要观众，但该提案并不是为盲人举办的展览，而是为了不排除被展览边缘化的观众，因为参观者无法触摸或与作品互动。这场名为《超越视觉》的展览旨在加强所有观众的触觉和非视觉感官参与，这与乔治娜·克利格关于“失明给艺术带来了什么”这一更广泛的文化价值的论点是一致的(克利格2018年)。这构成了一种创新的知识交流形式，扭转了既定的轨迹，并巩固了我们对一系列公共参与活动(由盲人和非盲人从业者协作开展)的态度。我们还将解决盲人和部分失明艺术家在现有雕塑档案中代表性不足的问题(包括HMI持有的那些)，并将编制一个盲人艺术家雕塑作品数据库，与非盲人艺术家的作品一起，明确阐述与雕塑实践相关的盲人负担问题。我们还将重新审视雕塑中的“触觉与视觉”之争，通过这样做，展览不仅寻求成为包容性的典范--直面触摸作品的禁令--而且还反驳了触摸的概念，即在缺乏视觉的情况下，触摸仅仅是一种“补偿”感觉。因此，该项目将对雕塑、触觉和盲人之间的关系进行新的研究，并在这样做的过程中重新评估什么是实体雕塑。