Blindness and memory: being reborn into a different world (2012)

John Hull became blind at an early age. Artefact shows the video of a lecture he gave as part of the Memory Marathon organized by the London Serpentine Gallery in 2012, in which he spoke in an immersive way about what it is like to be blind and how it has changed him as a person.

John Hull is Honorary Professor of Practical Theology in The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education and Emeritus Professor of Religious Education in the University of Birmingham. He has taught at schools and colleges in his native Australia and in England. A registered blind person since 1980, his writings about theology, education and blindness include Touching the Rock (1991); On Sight and Insight (1997) and In the Beginning There Was Darkness (2001). His new book The Tactile Heart: Blindness and Faith will be published next year.