This is an investigative exhibition project I curated to explore about the links between audio description and visual arts, and how audio description, facility targeting the visually impaired, can help enrich aesthetic experience for all people. The project received the Emerging Artist/Curator Grant from HKADC, and was supported by the ADAHK Jockey Club Accessibility Service Centre as its accessibility partner. Sixteen artists participated in the project and joined a 2-part workshop before embarking on a creative exploration of audio-description making for their own artwork.  The results were presented in a 2-part show in which only audios were presented in part 1 to provide visitors a unique listening experience in Cattle Depot before they could encounter the physical artworks in part 2. Extra audience engagement activities included inviting students to visualize the artworks their had only listened to by drawing, providing visitors with blindfolds to experience the exhibition via only listening and touching, and a public sharing session.

 

這是一個透過展覽，探索以聆聽「口述影像」去欣賞視覺藝術作品的項目。作為策展人，我連繫了十六位藝術家和香港展能藝術會賽馬會藝術通達服務中心，讓藝術家認識口述影像這個為視障觀眾而設的媒介，思考它與視覺藝術創作、美學經驗的關係，從而為自已作品編寫製作口述影像聲軌。項目得到香港藝術發展局青苗藝術家項目資助，展覽在牛棚藝術村舉行。第一部份是只能聽的展覽，現場沒有實物作品，只在原本作品位置設置了口述影像供人聆聽，接著第二部份實物作品才於展場展現。

 

項目詳情和展出作品的口述影像，可到以下網址了解聆聽：

http://cuhkmafaa.wix.com/soundofimage