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Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History *with chapters*
Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History *with chapters*
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
CUAG has developed an audio description tour for "Drawing on Our History," designed for gallery visitors who are blind or who have low vision. It is intended for in-gallery use, but can also be used remotely.
"Drawing on Our History" is a celebration of CUAG’s 30th anniversary, bringing the works of eight contemporary artists (invited by past guest curators) into an open conversation with a wide-ranging group of historical and contemporary drawings selected from the University’s collection and made by Canadian and international artists.
The tour provides an overall description of the exhibition, and descriptions of ten works from the CUAG collection, including the newest acquisition, “Medusa” by Ed Pien. It also features descriptions and interviews with three of the invited contemporary artists: Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Mélanie Meyers and Marigold Santos.
In gallery, there are tactile reproductions of several art works, and a tactile path for independent navigation.
This tour was produced by CUAG, and designed with insights from members of Ottawa and Carleton’s blind and low vision community.
"Drawing on Our History" is a celebration of CUAG’s 30th anniversary, bringing the works of eight contemporary artists (invited by past guest curators) into an open conversation with a wide-ranging group of historical and contemporary drawings selected from the University’s collection and made by Canadian and international artists.
The tour provides an overall description of the exhibition, and descriptions of ten works from the CUAG collection, including the newest acquisition, “Medusa” by Ed Pien. It also features descriptions and interviews with three of the invited contemporary artists: Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Mélanie Meyers and Marigold Santos.
In gallery, there are tactile reproductions of several art works, and a tactile path for independent navigation.
This tour was produced by CUAG, and designed with insights from members of Ottawa and Carleton’s blind and low vision community.
Released:
Mar 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (39)
Chapter 12: "Ex Voto / Lung": This chapter describes Ex Voto / Lung by Shelagh Keeley, created in 1990, and measuring 145 by 95 cm. It is one and a half minutes long. You can reach out to feel the edges of this frame. This drawing is much larger than the majority of those in the exhibition! And there is one word to describe this set of lungs: messiness. Though the outline is drawn in graphite, or pencil, the edges of the oblong biological vessel are smudged, and there are dense layers of thick black charcoal that create the shadows or roundness of the lungs. A section of orange and pink pigment mixed together in the centre of the left lung creates the impression of a glowing, pulsating shape underneath, a sense heightened by the cloudy and translucent quality of the paper. The artist has also smeared a transparent wax over the drawing, and it creates a tactility to it, as we imagine the artist using her hands to pull the wax down and across the surface. The lungs almost reach all four by CUAG Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History