Undefinable: Performance and the Radical Practice of Generative Neurodiversity

这个项目是对残疾和创造性实践的实践研究调查。我提出了一个创意性工作坊活动的情境计划，与生活和工作在我的专业合作伙伴格兰奇中心的残疾和神经分裂的成年人合作。这些课程的目的是探索“习得的应对机制”，即在应对个体困难时培养的经过时间磨练的行为，如何影响神经分化成年人的创造性生成能力和意义形成。我认为神经分化生成实践的“方法”是调用这些机制的方法，以弥补主导的神经典型分析实践给我们带来的“不理解”的差距。我想探讨没有(或误解)理解，作为一种创造性产生、再利用和交流的工具。实践课程将主要包括残疾人士主导的、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，仅举几例。田庄有各种各样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。工作室将从只有少量参与者参加的一对一调查会议开始，很快发展成合作小组，致力于展示不同神经生成机制的展览、装置或表演。‘未定义’是存在于一个永久发明的空间。一个流浪汉的空间，在典型的大学墙外；这个空间不是真空，而是一个具有非凡品质的回音室，通过我们习得的应对机制回响，经常产生意想不到的和意想不到的经验结果。当发散被包括在艺术解释的话语中而不是被排除在被误解的范围内时会发生什么？研究神经发散的观众和实践者的创造性生成能力将走在包容性的前列，并接受不同观看、体验和交流方式的可能性。这部作品在某种程度上为艺术部门提供了一种未来的保护，使他们免受被视为“他者”的声音和经历的排斥，他们以不同的方式接触艺术及其艺术品。

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.