Dr Lee Campbell’s research residency (29th August - 1st September) at The Brady Arts Centre in Whitechapel, developed through the Open Lab scheme at Barbican Guildhall, combines invited speaker presentations from academics and arts practitioners from all over the world, practical experiments and reflective discussions on the topic of vision impairment underpinned by these two key questions: 

1) What could a cross-modal arts manifesto for blind/visually impaired persons look like/ feel like?

2) How can acts exploring visual negation be used to generate public pedagogy and what may it bring to the experience of removal of sight? 

Contributors include artists Carali McCall and Adrian Lee, theatre director Nathan Geering, researcher and lecturer Dr Simon Hayhoe,  and BBC Radio 3 audio describer Louise Fryer amongst others. 

Throughout the week, we will be using Google Docs to map our ideas relating to the above questions by using the following link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NwfqmT7vV-xpWcG7qBp0MubncFsl3aX1i6Q4VhKHM3c/edit

Ideas can also be posted using the Twitter hashtag #leecampbellopenlab

The public are invited to a sharing of practice/documentation/final live collaborating writing of the 'manifesto' on Friday 1st September between 2 - 4pm BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. If you would like to attend this sharing, please email [log in to unmask] and
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A public dissemination event will be held at Toynbee Studios on September 21st. Details here: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/events/4052

Dr Lee Campbell FHEA
Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln 
http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/lcampbell