麻豆社

For those who can see, looking is one of the main modes of contact with the world. It can be tied up with joy or pain, with desire or despair, with judgement or disorientation. It is never neutral. The complexities of looking are explored by some of the greatest poets: John Donne, William Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and more; as well as by philosophers David Hume and Jean-Paul Sartre and critics Dziga Vertov and Laura Mulvey. Music, notoriously, is primarily an aural medium, but composers too have been fascinated by the textures and experiences of looking, from Beethoven to Puccini, via Prokofiev, Arvo Part and The Kinks. With readers Ellie Piercy and Ben Miles.
Producer: Luke Mulhall