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今日的展覽越來越多設置了口述影像服務，讓視障人士同樣能夠欣賞和參與藝術。簡單來說，口述影像是把看得見的視覺元素，透過有條理地描述，把作品具象地呈現出來。

 

對於一般視覺藝術家，用文字去描述作品，自然不是作品本身。但視障觀眾如果要依賴口述影像去欣賞作品，它就是一個相當重要的作品文本了。作品由視覺元素轉化成口述影像，當中的分別是什麼，落差有多大呢？這些是資料性的落差，不同媒介體系的落差，想像力的落差，還是什麼呢？而這些落差，是否基於一種置視覺感官為上的執著？如果單單透過文字描述與聽覺去欣賞、體驗藝術作品，當中獲取的必定是不一樣的美學經驗，那會否是更豐富，想像空間更廣闊？如果藝術家為自己的作品編寫並製作口述影像，該段聲音是否已成為獨立的作品？

 

我們一班視覺藝術家對口述影像的種種，抱有興趣、好奇、疑問。我們得到通達伙伴『香港展能藝術會賽馬會藝術通達服務中心』的支持，首先學習如何編寫製作口述影像，再加入自己的創作元素，為自己的作品以創作者第一身去編製「口述影像作品」，透過實踐進行探索。

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• 展覽《聽、見、想、像》分兩部份：第一部份 (1-7.12.2013) 是只能聽的展覽，在現場沒有實物作品，只是在原本作品的位置旁設置了口述影像，供參觀者聆聽。第二部份 (8-14.12.2013) 是能聽能看的展覽，那時各實物作品會重現於展場。

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Today an increasing number of art exhibitions provide audio description as a facility to help the visually impaired appreciate the works shown. An audio description—usually a recorded description of what is visually present by a narrator— is not the same as an actual work, but it is a critical medium for the visually impaired to enjoy the art.

 

While there’s a practical need for the facility, questions—like how an audio description is different from a work in its visual form and whether an audio description makes art appreciation more difficult—arise. But at the same time, there are intriguing dimensions—like whether audio tracks allow more imagination and how the differences between hearing and seeing an artwork might transform the aesthetic experience—waiting for both audiences and artists to explore.

 

With support from Jockey Club Arts Accessibility Service Centre, 16 artists explore these issues firsthand by learning how to write and produce audio descriptions.  Each artist then will create an audio description for his/her own work and present the result in this exhibition, Sound Of Image, in two parts -

 

Part 1: Audio – Only Exhibition (Dec 1-7) – only audio tracks of artworks will be presented at the corresponding locations of the works.

 

Part 2: Audio + Visual Exhibition (Dec 8-14) – the actual artworks will be at the venue.