Help Me I Am Blind

2010

Heidi Specker, Theo Deutinger
Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag

JRP Editions, 19,5 x 13,5 cm, 164 pages
English Edition: ISBN 9783037641293
German Edition: ISBN 9783037641309

Front and back cover of Help Me I Am Blind

“The imagination lies at the opposite end of the spectrum from the view. While the view suffers from chronic delay, caused by the inertia of light, multiplied by frictional losses in the human visual organ, imagination is a real-time phenomenon. With properly functioning eyesight, the view is guaranteed, whereas the imagination has to be forced."

Theo Deutinger

Help Me I Am Blind

Help Me I Am Blind—two people in search of the intervening space. Heidi Specker's photographed views of Australia are answered by the daily imaginings of Theo Deutinger in Rotterdam. An exchange of images and texts—in real time via the Internet—results in testimonies of distance and closeness—at a time when the meter and kilometer have obviously outlived their relevance as measures of distance.

Help Me I Am Blind

Help Me I Am Blind

Press Review

FAZ, 11 NOV 2010

Rheinischer Merkur, 2010