Blindfolded Tour
— open full sizeOn the opening day of the collective exhibition “Tashkent Futures” I led two participatory performances — tours open to both visually impaired and sighted visitors, which took Yuri Albert’s “Blindfolded Tour” as their starting point.
- Exhibition
- “Tashkent Futures”, 139 Documentary Center, Tashkent
- Created within
- CCA LAB 2021–2022, the research laboratory of the Center for Contemporary Art, Tashkent
- Laboratory and exhibition curator
- Alexey Ulko
- Supported by
- ACDF — Arts and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan
According to Yuri Albert, the goal of his tour was “to ensure equal access for the blind and sighted to the experience of not understanding”. My goal was the opposite: in my performance I raised the question of making art accessible to everyone.
The space and the hang of the exhibition were designed for sighted visitors. This let the sighted participants feel how people without sight perceive the world. Meanwhile, visually impaired visitors got to know contemporary art: they learned about the works in detail, touched some of the objects and met the artists.
After the opening, the text of the tour was handed over to the mediators, who went on leading tours until the exhibition closed.
