Konst att beröra : Om olika metoder för att tillgängliggöra konstutställningar för synskadade

• Main Author: Lindstedt, Sofia
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur 2008
• Subjects: Konst; beröring; känselsinne; synskada; taktil konst; museipedagogik; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-12039

The topic of this essay is how art exhibitions can be made available for - and conveyed to – a visually impaired audience. Two visual impairment-displays and one available museum will be analyzed in this essay. They will be shown during the time period 2006 – 2007 and focus on exhibitions in Sweden. Complex of problems that arises when art exhibitions are to be conveyed for those without eyesight is how you choose what can be conveyed and how this shall be conveyed. The art exhibitions in this study are using text, story telling and the sense of touch as methods to make the works of art available. The analyze shows that the work of art as a whole can not be accessible to a visually impaired audience by these methods, and that is why museums sometimes choose certain parts of the art work to represent the whole work of art.