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Blindness in the Museum

Friday 1 November
1030 - 1730

East Room, Level 7, Tate Modern

This seminar was the first in a series of events called Challenging Ocularcentricity in Museum Practice. It is a collaboration between Birkbeck College and Tate Modern, and comprises a series of four seminars which investigate blind people's intellectual access to museums and galleries. The first session, Blindness in the Museum, begins by examining how blind people's interpretations of the world are affected by the ocularcentricty of language, before investigating possible alternatives.

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10:50 - 11:00	Welcome and Introduction Caro Howell, Tate Modern and Fiona Candlin
11:00 - 11:45	Blind sight in the eighteenth-century: what the blind see that the sighted don't for Denis Diderot Prof. Marian Hobson, Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London
11:45 - 12:30	Sensescapes: Art, Aesthetics and the Anthropology of the Senses Prof. David Howes, Anthropolgy, Concordia University, Canada
12:30 - 13:15	Looking Blind Georgina Kleege, novelist and author of Sight Unseen
14:15 - 15:00	Presentation Clara Orsitti, artist working with scent
15:00 - 15:45	Speech and Being David Rudkin, playwright
16:15 - 17:30	Panel discussion, with audience intervention Prof. Marian Hobson, Prof. David Howes, Clara Orsitti, Georgina Kleege and David Rudkin, chaired by: Fiona Candlin