List of figures List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake Part I: Critical reflections on blindness arts 1 Modes of touch: modelling haptic engagement Georgina Kleege 2 Blindness gain and the arts: from blindness arts to critical blindness studies and back again Hannah Thompson, Vanessa Warne and Marion Chottin 3 Blindness as the creative liberation of curatorial practice Fayen d'Evie Part II: Towards inclusivity 4 Extant: provoking, disrupting, and redefining expectations of the blind and visually impaired presence in theatre Maria Oshodi 5 Architecture Beyond Sight: working with blind and partially sighted people to co-develop design methods beyond the visual Jos Boys, Poppy Levison, Duncan Meerding, Zoe Partington and Mandy Redvers-Rowe 6 Philosophical and pedagogical theories on the creative play of children with visual impairments Simon Hayhoe Part III: Access as praxis 7 Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description Amanda Cachia 8 Shaping collective access: community and interdependence in Carmen Papalia's praxis Àger Pérez Casanovas 9 Cross-sensory translation of light: pyrotechnical arts Collin van Uchelen Part IV: Multisensory environments 10 The art of getting lost Simon Ungar 11 Blue House: the intangible space Lydia Ya Chu Chang 12 Circumstantes: a site-specific performance installation and film Ken Wilder and Aaron McPeake Part V: Touch, sound, smell, taste 13 Holding Eva Hesse Fayen d'Evie 14 Sounds as vibration: a method of making and a mode of reception in contemporary arts practice Aaron McPeake 15 To be sniffed at: the role of smell in contemporary art Claire O'Dowd 16 The mouth between the eyes: food art and material, social, sensorial relations Rain Wu Part VI: Words, translations, descriptions 17 Extracts from Black Cane Diary Joseph Rizzo Naudi 18 A film you can feel: sensory deception, translation and confluence in film work Passing Jo Bannon 19 Reimagining inclusive museum audio description: what it is, who creates it, and who is it for? Rachel Hutchinson and Alison Eardley 20 Describing anarchy Matthew Cock and Hannah Thompson Part VII: Towards a blind aesthetics 21 Blind aesthetics: complexity, contingency and conflict David Johnson 22 Gravity: the great big weight of the (visual) world David Mollin and Salomé Voegelin 23 'Touch-space', 'blindness gain' and the ontology of sculpture Ken Wilder.