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Think that you have been born blind, that you belong to world of blind people who have never seen and, therefore, don't have any idea of what colour or visual shapes are.
Now, what would Art mean to such a society? Which form of arts would they have?
Think that you belong to a society that is mostly deaf-mute.
Now, ask yourself the same questions.
Think that you belong to a society mostly formed by people who are deaf-mute and blind.
Now, ask yourself the same questions.
Now, think about our world, where there are considerable groups of people with important disabilities that affect the way they percive the worl, they are deaf-mute, blind, have neurological ailments, they are daltonic, they don't have hands, and so on.
Now, think about Art in general, its meaning and Universality. I don't want you to focus on those people, but ont he role that Art would play or plays for them. This is an exercise to understand and think.
Share your thoughts out loud, at least in a way that I can know what you think.
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