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Blind at the Museum at Berkeley Art MuseumThe University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Blind at the Museum, an exhibition on view in the museum's Theater Gallery through July 24, 2005. Guest curated by Katherine Sherwood, Professor of Art Practice at U.C. Berkeley, and Beth Dungan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Medicine, the Humanities, and Law, Blind at the Museum investigates the nature of blindness and the "visual arts" in works by numerous artists who probe the limits of optical experience.
An art museum would seem to be no place for the blind, as co-curators Sherwood and Dungan remind us. "Yet art objects address many sensory mechanisms - touch, hearing, scent, taste - and thus offer an opportunity to reconsider the process of 'viewing' or responding to art. Visual artists are often thinking about the very nature of vision: What does it mean to 'see'? ... And what are the limits, or the liabilities, of the gaze?"
Blind at the Museum explores visual experience in works by Sophie Calle, a French artist known for her series on blindness; sculptor Robert Morris; multimedia artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Joseph Grigely; photographers John Dugdale and Alice Wingwall, and others. The artists in the exhibition address the nature of visual experience from a variety of perspectives: some emphasize so
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