Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presents the viewer with an open box containing two iron bars, one straight and one curved. The title of the work tells us they are "To be Bent with the Eyes." Beneath the bars, a graph paper background adds pseudo-scientific validity to the notion that over time our vision will exert some kind of material force on the art object. Here Meireles makes us his collaborator, and we can only wonder how many viewers it will take until the bars curl completely and break through their...
...another witty piece, "Blind Mirror" (1970), Meireles muddles the relationship between vision and touch. The work is a white hospital mirror covered with thick, sticky caulking. In theory, a blind person could make an impression of his face in the mirror, and then "look" at himself through touch. On first viewing the work this explanation seems undermined by a blind person's simple ability to touch his own face. Why worry about getting your eyebrows and facial hair stuck in an uncomfortable mirror? But then at the bottom of the frame we notice a key to the piece, its title...
This cloning feat also comes at a time of intense globalization. It is harder for communities to define themselves, to set norms and to formulate a vision of the future independence of the new world order. As a result, fundamentalism is on the rise everywhere, and a resurgent religious movement in America seeks to establish through political power the values once bred in families and communities...
...small eyes focused on you with intensity. Then he would look away, far away, perhaps at some distant vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny...
According to Potter, Kanwisher's research in vision coincides with MIT's long-standing interest in this area. "She has done very high-quality work in a field full of not very good work," Potter said...