I've long admired American Artist, Sean Bidic's Site-specific installation, "In the Absence of Voyeurism #6, 2000-2006" in the first floor Men's Restroom at the flagship 21C Museum Hotels location in Louisville, KY.
This site specific piece is based upon the artist's series by the same name. In 2002, Sean Bidic, a plastic surgeon at the University of Texas Medical Center, took time off from medicine to complete a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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While in Pittsburgh, Bidic befriended a blind dart throwing club and became interested in how people view and stereotype people with disabilities. For this series, the blind eyes of seven individuals from the dart throwing group are captured on individual videos.
The eyes of the group appear to flare out at the viewer on life-size LCD monitors. By reversing the gaze of the disabled person onto the viewer, Bidic creates an environment for the viewer to experience the tension of what it might feel like to receive the unwelcome glare of a stranger.
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