Blindness Arts: Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly

We are delighted and proud to announce that a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly entitled 'Blindness Arts' is now available here. This issue - which is co-edited by Blind Creations organisers Hannah Thompson and Vanessa Warne - features work by several conference speakers and attendees. It continues collaborations and conversations which started at Blind Creations and is a wonderful way of extending the reach and legacy of the 2015 event.

Table of Contents (with links to articles)

Hannah Thompson and Vanessa Warne, “Blindness Arts: An Introduction”

Access

Fayen d’Evie and Georgina Kleege, “The Gravity, The Levity: Let Us Speak of TactileEncounters”

Hannah Thompson, “Audio Description: Turning Access to Film into Cinema Art”

Louise Fryer, “Staging the Audio Describer:  AnExploration of Integrated Audio Description”

Brandon Christopher, “Rethinking Comics and Visuality, from the Audio Daredevil to Philipp Meyer’s Life”

Creation

Aaron McPeake, “Bell Bronzes: Reflections on a Blind Visual Arts Practice”

Florian Grond and David Johnson, “Remote Feelings: On Blind-SightedCollaborations and Long-Distance Art Making”

Vanessa Warne, “Ready-Made Code: Braille in Contemporary Visual Culture”

Catalin Brylla, “Bypassing the Supercrip Trope in Documentary Representations of BlindVisual Artists”

Heather Tilley, “Portraying Blindness: Nineteenth-Century Images of Tactile Reading”

Performance

Piet Devos, “Dancing Beyond Sight: How Blindness Shakes up the Senses of Dance”

Arseli Dokumaci, “Disability as Method: Interventions in the Habitus of Ableismthrough Media-Creation”

Emily Michael, “Sacred Positions: A Personal History of Blindness and Singing”

Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, "Travelling Blind"