Setting Up the Beyond the Visual Symposium with Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake
Season 1, Episode 1442, Oct 27, 2022, 10:45 AM
Beyond the Visual, a symposium reflecting on what blindness brings to the experience of art within cultural organisations and beyond was held at Wellcome Collection on Friday and Saturday 21 and 22 October 2022.
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the first of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he spoke with two of the main people behind Beyond the Visual, Artist, Writer and Academic Ken Wilder and visually impaired Artist Arron McPeake
Ken and Arron talked about the background to the Beyond the Visual symposium, the network funded research sessions that lead up to the symposium, a flavour of what will be taking place over the two days of the symposium, the aims and objectives of the symposium and what they are both looking forward to from the two days.
To find out more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the first of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he spoke with two of the main people behind Beyond the Visual, Artist, Writer and Academic Ken Wilder and visually impaired Artist Arron McPeake
Ken and Arron talked about the background to the Beyond the Visual symposium, the network funded research sessions that lead up to the symposium, a flavour of what will be taking place over the two days of the symposium, the aims and objectives of the symposium and what they are both looking forward to from the two days.
To find out more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)