Blind Aesthetics: Ways of (Not) Seeing (Memory, Materiality, and the Plurality and Synaesthetics of the Senses)

当代的视觉偏见模糊了独立于视觉的可视化和成像的存在和力量。在混凝土、粘土、乳胶和数字声音环境中进行雕塑工作，我的(盲目)艺术实践通过在记忆、物质和神经多元性之间创造特定的感官联系，极大地摆脱了这种视觉偏见。它询问失明能在多大程度上揭示出一种不同的视觉方式，一种不再主要依附于触觉的方式。这项研究扩展了残疾收益理论家(克利格/汤普森)的工作，提供了(不是)观察的新方法。

Contemporary visual bias obscures the existence and force of sight-independent visualisation and imaging. Working sculpturally in concrete, clay, latex and digital sound environments, my (blind) art practice dramatically shifts away from this visual bias by creating specific sensorial connections between memory, materiality and neural pluralities. It asks to what extent blindness can reveal a different approach to the visual, one that is no longer primarily attached to the haptic. This research extends the work of disability gain theorists (Kleege/Thompson) providing new ways of (not) seeing.