Reiko Shimizu
About the Actant
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Blind Art began with Reiko organizing art classes for the Blind Boys Academy. “What does visual art mean for a blind person?”, she has asked herself, out of which grew the idea of creating a space for blind boys and others to explore creative process together. An open experience through creating art. An enriching experience involving varieties of people to exchange, understand, learn, share, accept, expand and break a paradigm. More questions emerged, for instance: What is it like to not have visual sense in this visually overloaded world? What does the visual sense do to us as individuals? As a society? And what about other senses? Reiko hopes the audience can help answering these questions with the experience acquired through this incident.