Transcending sight

Transcending Sight is a socially engaged art project that promotes art grounded in visually impaired people’s own perspectives and priorities. The project comprises four series of peer workshops for visually impaired people. The Multisensory art workshops explored art through different senses, recording the resonant sounds of Helsinki’s best-known statues to shift attention from seeing them to listening to them. The Public art workshops explored public art in Helsinki as a basis for creating a public artwork from a visually impaired perspective. The Artistic activism workshops involved developing a public artwork with cultural researcher Nina Sääskilahti for a Helsinki park, integrating braille into the aesthetics of public space. The Invisible sounds workshops involved recording ultrasound produced by plants, animals and human infrastructure to create works that evoke how animals hear urban space.