Blind Artist Self Portrait and Materiality in Stop-motion Animation
Abstract
This essay analyses touch as an essential element in blind artist artworks which is strongly related to the stop-motion animation technique. In their practice, some blind artists incorporate touch as the essential part in the process of making and viewing their art or self- portrait. In cinema, incorporating touch also has been applied by filmmakers to heightened other senses than visual and audio to bring viewers and film closer. In this essay author discussing how the element of touch in the artworks related to the touch in the stop-motion animation technique. The work of Tactile Dialogues (2006), and Blind Narcissus Invent his Own Mirror (2007).
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