BLIND NESS: The Irresistible Light of Encounter is a multidisciplinary theater work by Ping Chong and Michael Rohd exploring Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness colonialism in the Belgian Congo and their reverberations into the present. Using text, movement, performance, shadow puppetry, object theater, and stunning visuals that have been the hallmark of Ping Chong's work for more than 30 years, BLIND NESS intercuts the dramatic narrative of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, told through shadow puppetry, with the real-life figures of King Leopold II of Belgium, who acquired the Belgian Congo as a personal colony, and the courageous activists, such as Roger Casement, Edmund Dene Morel, William Sheppard and others, who orchestrated one of the first global mass-media human rights campaigns to reveal and halt his abuses.