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blindspot is an interdisciplinary research project about perception, developed by Herwig Turk and Dr. Paulo Pereira. The project aims at investigating perception in a broad and global sense, as well as its circumstances, its determinants, and its contingencies. The proceedings in the laboratories for vision sciences research are translated into different settings, thereby creating a meta-language that crosses the traditional boundaries between science and art. At the same time, a new heterotopic space for experimentation is created where objects, gestures, and language acquire new dimensions having been separated from their supporting contexts. The approach used by the authors of Blindspot adopts the formal structure of a research project. The starting point is a hypothesis: Science represents an imperfect means whereby perception is used as a privileged means to assess reality (“an improved means to an unimproved end”, Thoreau) there is nothing to see … Reinhard Braun, Graz/A 2004 “When the air shimmers, distorting perception, this impacts on our access to reality and thus on our understanding of ‘sense-certainty', on our understanding of truth in terms of correspondence theory, etc.” (Arthur Roesler referring to Plato) Every question about perception, about a reality of perception or a reality through perception, must be reduced to the question of a medium.
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