Undefinable: Performance and the Radical Practice of Generative Neurodiversity

本项目是对残疾与创造性实践的实践-研究调查。我提议与生活和工作在格兰奇中心的残疾和神经分化的成年人合作开展创意工作坊活动，这是我的专业伙伴。这些课程的目的是探讨“习得的应对机制”，即在应对个人困难时培养的经过时间磨练的行为，是如何影响神经分化成人的创造性和意义创造的。我将生成实践的神经发散性“方法”定义为调用这些机制的方法，以抵消主导的神经典型分析实践呈现给我们的“不理解”的差距。我想探索不（或错误）理解，作为创造性生成、重用和交流的工具。实践课程将主要包括以残疾人为主导、以艺术为基础的工作坊活动，包括戏剧和设计、绘画、视觉艺术、陶器、摄影等。格兰奇拥有各种令人印象深刻的设施，会议内容将在很大程度上取决于参与者的个人兴趣。工作坊将以少量参与者的一对一调查会议开始，很快发展成合作小组，致力于展示神经发散生成机制的展览、装置或表演。“未定义”就是存在于一个不断发明的空间中。一个无家可归的空间，在典型的欧洲大学的围墙外；这个空间不是真空，而是一个回响室，通过我们学习的应对机制，产生意想不到的、意想不到的体验结果。当分歧被包括在艺术解释的话语中，而不是作为“误解”而被排除在外，会发生什么？研究神经发散性观众和实践者的创造性生成能力，将引领包容性，并拥抱不同的观看、体验和交流方式的可能性。这项工作在某种程度上为艺术部门的未来提供了保障，使其免受被视为“他者”的声音和经验的排斥，他们以不同的方式访问艺术及其工艺品。

This project is a practice-as-research investigation of disability and creative practice. I propose a situatedprogram of creative workshop activities collaborating with disabled and neurodivergent adults living andworking at The Grange Centre, my professional partner. The purpose of these sessions is to explore how'learnt coping mechanisms', time-honed behaviours cultivated in response to individual difficulties, affectcreative generativity and meaning-making in neurodivergent adults.I identify neurodivergent 'approaches' to generative practice as approaches that call upon these mechanisms,to counter the gap of 'non-understanding' rendered to us by dominant neurotypical analytical practices. I wantto explore not (or mis) understanding, as a tool for creative generation, reuse and communication.Practice sessions will consist primarily of disability led, arts-based workshop activities including theatre anddevising, drawing, visual arts, pottery, photography, to name a small number. The Grange has a wide range ofimpressive facilities and session content will be largely dependent on individual interests of the participant.Workshops will begin as investigatory one-to-one sessions with a small number of participants, soondeveloping into collaborative groups working towards an exhibition, installation or performance presentingneurodivergent generative mechanics.To be 'Undefined' is to exist in a space of perpetual invention. A homeless space, outside the walls of theneurotypical university; this space is not a vacuum, rather a reverberation chamber of phenomenal qualitiesechoing through our learnt coping mechanisms, often yielding unexpected, and unintended experientialoutcomes. What happens when divergence is included in the discourse of artistic interpretation rather thanexcluded as 'misunderstood'?Investigating creative generativity in neurodivergent spectators and practitioners will forefront inclusivity andembrace the possibilities of different ways of seeing, experiencing and communicating. This work goes someway towards future-proofing the arts sector against an exclusion of voices and experiences seen as 'other',who access arts and its artefacts differently.