ABSTRACT
In museums, people’s aesthetic experiences arise in social interaction with the people they are with, and others who happen to be there at the same time. This chapter explores how visually impaired persons (VIPs) examine works of art in interaction with a sighted companion. The analyses of video-recorded interaction between VIP and sighted companions begin to reveal how the participants with differential access to the exhibits produce and render experienceable for each other what they examine and how they experience it. In this way, the VIP and their sighted companions progressively constitute a reciprocity of perspectives through vocal, visual, and tactile action and interaction.
