During a seminar about Haptic Experiments, David Feeney gave an interesting comparison between artists walking practises which aim to disrupt our usual experience of the environment, sometimes useing tactics to purposefully get lost or disorientate, including walking while blind folded and the walking experiences of individuals with a visual impaiment.
In his presentation: ” An account of the importance of order and route-learning in the pedestrian experiences of individuals with visual impairments is posited between what Robin Jarvis refers to as the stroller’s ‘freedom to resist the imperative of destination’ .
Feeney argues that tactics such as blind folds and night walking, privilage the visual and suggests artist apprenticed with visually impaired individuals as a way to reach new understandings (find out more about this ideas). This suggestion draws on James Winchester’s idea that “To understand each other across cultural divides, we must leave our comfort zone and become students of the many worlds out of which each artwork arises.”
research mentioned to find out more about:
Nina Morris “the uncritical way in which visibility is incorporated into many post-phenomenological accounts of landscape”
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