Discovering the world through the eyes of blind people.
video = latin for "I see", „I can see"
BLIND SPOT is an international art project, inviting blind and sighted people for participation. Blind residents are guiding video artists through their own city. They are detailing their personal bearing on this city, incidents of the past, stories associated with certain spots and things that can´t or don´t want to be seen by others. The participating video artists are trying to interpret these stories in a visual and acoustic way, and so uncover the city experiences of blind people. Thus, there are appearing very distinct ways of seeing places and facetes of the city life.
At the same time, BLIND SPOT is a series of portraits, showing how people without eyesight find their ways in this world and how they deal with their environment and their sensual detraction. Visitors of the Blind Spot Videosite are invited to publish their individual interpretations and comments about what they have seen.
After the book „Botschaft Linz“ and the documentary film „Trivial Europe“, BLIND SPOT is the third part of a project run of DIE FABRIKANTEN about special places.
If you are interested in making a video for BLIND SPOT, please contact us (harringer[at]fabrikanten.at). We inform you about project details and charges.
This is a link to the interdisciplinary research project „theblindspot“ from Herwig Turk and Dr. Paulo Pereira.
Just click on one of the cities marked with a pin to go directly to the particular project page.
Alternatively you can access the projects under the link Blind Spot Videos.