We seek to cultivate a space where artistic voices reveal a world transcending the normative–non-normative spectrum of neurological experience. We invite submissions in any medium (painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, performance, and more) exploring the theme of neurodiversity.
About the project
“Synapses’ Glimmering” offers an affirmative exploration of neurodiversity, understood as the natural neurological variation within our species. Neurodiversity unveils the boundless complexity of how we process information, sense, communicate, and engage with the world. It challenges the normative orders that reduce different forms of perception and sensation to diagnoses or disorders.
What happens when we foreground the coexistence of different ways of sensing and thinking, rather than reducing them to their essentialization? What becomes possible when we no longer measure by productivity and functionality? What forms can life and artistic expression take outside the language of disorder and deficit?
Art is a space of refuge, a source of strength to question normative orders. It can open new paths of coexistence, point toward alternative directions for expression, relationships, and creativity – in admiration of neurodivergent experiences, and in reflection on pathologizing and medicalizing frameworks.
Through this project, we will examine how neuronorms affect creative spaces; we will discover practices that open possibilities beyond binary frameworks; we will get to know neuroatypical creative processes and artistic practices.
