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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151016T110000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-irish-festival-roam-th
 e-city-streets-with-the-eyes-of-an-animal/
SUMMARY:Liverpool: Liverpool Irish Festival: Meta-Perceptual Helmets
DESCRIPTION:Friday 16 - Sunday 25 October 2015 11.00 - 18.00\nVarious locat
 ions in Liverpool city centre\n\nWearable sculptures will be free to try i
 n Liverpool city centre during the Liverpool Irish Festival\, letting you 
 see through the eyes of an animal.\n\nHave you ever wanted to look left an
 d right as a hammerhead shark\, swimming through the sea? How about experi
 encing the exceptional peripheral vision of a horse or\, like a chameleon\
 , be able to see forward and backwards at the same time? During this Octob
 er’s Liverpool Irish Festival\, five wearable sculptures will be availab
 le on the city’s streets allowing those who wear them to be able to see 
 through the eyes of an animal\, both real and imaginary.\n\nThe Meta-Perce
 ptual Helmets\, which have never been seen in the UK\, have been created b
 y Irish artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly. Inspired by early 20th Cen
 tury experiments in perceptual adaptation each helmet offers the wearer a 
 different view\, or the sight experience and visual perception of a differ
 ent animal\; the enhanced stereoscopic view of the hammerhead shark\, the 
 lateral-vision of the horse or the highly visually-oriented chameleon. As 
 well as real animals\, one special helmet offers a glimpse into the percep
 tion of animals that are imaginary or appear in literature\; the Cheshire 
 Cat Helmet allows you to see the world normally\, but with the lingering e
 ffect of dominating visual information\, like a smile or eyes.\n\nDuring t
 he Festival they can be seen and worn at:\n\nFri 16 Oct Liverpool ONE\nSat
  17 Oct Clayton Square\nSun 18 Oct Albert Dock\n\nFri 23 Oct Church Street
 /Lord St\nSat 24 Oct Liverpool ONE\nSun 25 Oct Ropewalks Square\n\nFree fo
 r all to try • 11.00 - 18.00\n\nVisual perception is closely aligned wit
 h evolution. The chameleon\, for example\, uses its visual system to sense
  prey\, identify a mate and to avoid a predator.\n\nThe outstanding stereo
 -vision of the hammerhead means it has a 360 degree field in all direction
 s\, and many scientists believe it has the best “all round vision” of 
 the animal kingdom. But what about the human? Why is our vision so limited
 ?\n\nWhy is our depth perception so poor and why can’t our eyes offer us
  different views of the world? With the Meta-Perceptual Helmets\, people w
 ill be able to see an alternative\, experience the world through different
  species eyes and reflect on their own vision. The wearer becomes a hybrid
 \, part human\, part machine\, part animal as well as part of an artwork.\
 n\nAnne Cleary and Denis Connolly\, award-winning artists from Ireland who
  now live in Paris\, worked with the optometrics department at the Univers
 ity of Montreal to get advice on the design of the helmets and a master co
 ach builder\, Neil Mckenzie\, on the hand-crafted construction. The horse 
 helmet\, for example\, has two ocular lenses and two pentaprisms and lets 
 you think you can turn your eye all the way around. The work was first sho
 wn at the Natural History Museum of Ireland and the Kilkenny Arts Festival
 .\n\nThe Meta-Perceptual Helmets were created through funding from the Art
 s Council of Ireland\, and this free exhibition in the city has been made 
 possible by funding from Arts Council England.
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