Mask, tape recorder, earphones and collection of objects.
"Four artists are picked from the airport, blindfolded, and taken to Amsterdam Warmoesstraat where they stayed during the full 8 days of BLINDED TOURIST, not leaving the building." [http://www.mariellevideler.nl/situaties/Blinded_Tourist.htm]
This work is a performance in which I interact with the Blinded Tourists, four people for the first time in Amsterdam, who never heard Dutch before. They hear the sound of a Dutch word whose meaning is for them unknown: “gracht” (city canal). They are blinded with a mask all the time and I ask them separately to listen the sound, concentrate and tell me how they picture it. I ask them to see the sound and describe it to me. I captured their impressions with a tape recorder and translated them into objects that I brought to their residence space.
Collection of objects: Bottle of water, honey, lemon, red boa, stone, cutlery, bucket, plastic sunflower and watering can.
Photos of the performance by Marijn de Wijs.
