[accessibleimage] video Sense and Sensuality Art exhibion 2006

Hi,
Unsure if sent before, but just in case. A video of  the Sense and
Sensuality Art exhibion 2006
http://www.bsn.org.uk/view_all.php?id=12125
Regards,
Lisa
SHOT LIST: 
(London, UK. September 13, 2006)
1. GV showing people looking at exhibition
2. Mother and child playing Untitled work by Nick Homby
3. Man putting his head inside ?Chromosphere? sensory work by Jenny Cordy
4. Pan across from ?man through wall? exhibit to blind man exploring
painting with friends
5. CU of blind man
6. SOT (English speech) super: Sheri Khayami, Founder of BlindArt Charity
?The visually impaired artists are actually?..
7. Pan across gallery space
8. CU of hand playing with Tine Bech and Tom Woolf?s ?Echidna? installation
9. Medium-shot of woman interacting with ?Echidna? work 
10. SOT (English speech) super: Tine Bech, Exhibition Artist
?Echidna uses an electromagnetic field?.
11. Sequence of man walking through Nick Ball?s ?Black Cube? installation
12. SOT (English speech) super: Sheri Khayami, Founder of BlindArt Charity
?We live in very sight dominated world?..
13. Women looking at, and touching painting
14. Mime artists performing outside exhibition gallery


SUGGESTED INTRO:

The second annual multi-sensory art exhibition aimed equally at sighted
and visually impaired people has opened at the Bankside Gallery in London.
The ?Sense and Sensuality? exhibition is organised by the BlindArt charity
and unlike normal shows, encourages visitors to touch and interact with
the artworks.



SCRIPT: 

This is no normal exhibition. It?s a hands-on affair where the visitor is
actively encouraged to touch and interact with the works on display.

The show aims to dispel the common belief that only sighted artists can
create visual art and also challenges what its organisers see as the art
world?s last taboo ? touch!

Judges had no idea if the works they selected for the show were by
sighted, blind or partially-sighted artists.

SOT (English speech) super: Sheri Khayami, Founder of BlindArt Charity
?The visually impaired artists are actually competing on a very level
field with the sighted artists and yet we have 20% of the artists that are
visually impaired, some of them indeed blind. Remember these are artists
that have no sight or very little sight and yet they have managed to
compete with their sighted colleagues and still get selected. So that?s a
great achievement for the charity, to address the misconception that sight
is necessary for creating visual art.?
13.34-14.09

The only stipulation BlindArt placed on the 600-artists submitting work to
be selected for the exhibition was that it must be able to be touched and
explored. 

SOT (English speech) super: Tine Bech, Exhibition Artist
?Echidna uses an electromagnetic field to create the sound, so that when
you almost touch it or touch it reacts to you. What I like and always like
to achieve is to sort of get people to participate so that the actual
participation, the touching, is part of the work. That they get this sense
that I do something then something happens, so you have this immediate
reaction that allows you to experience the artwork in other ways than, you
know, the traditional visual way.?

Works like Nick Ball?s ironically titled ?Black Cube? installation embody
the main objective of the show: to encourage the use of all senses to
break down barrier between art and the viewer.

SOT (English speech) super: Sheri Khayami, Founder of BlindArt Charity
?We live in a very sight dominated world, especially I think in the
Western civilization. The sense of touch is actually the only sense with
which humans cannot survive without, it?s the only sense with which humans
cannot survive, and it is very important to bring in the other senses to
art appreciation. It does add that little extra element to it. It makes it
more intimate, more interactive, makes it more physical.?

It may be impossible to tell from the 75-works just which artist is
sighted or visually impaired, but we can be sure that those not taking an
actual hands-on approach will definitely be left outside in the cold.



Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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