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Experiments in
Neurodiverse Futurities
Yokosuka Art Residency, Japan

30 Mar 2024
workshop

For this workshop shy*play proposes to create collectively an environment for doing neurodiversity through languaging errantly. As we understand it, neurotypicality values methods of using language that are orally spoken and written in a standardized manner. This typically follows a linear structure, emphasizing logic and rationality...

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Doing Neurodiversity: Wayfaring Words
Arts Beyond Ableism Conference

25 Nov 2023
workshop

What if we do not yet know what inclusion is? What if inclusion is not about being welcoming to the "othered," such as the neurodivergent and the disabled, but rather, what if the possibilities for inclusion lie in engaging with the tendencies we often label as pathologies? In this workshop, shy* play proposes to rethink inclusion by doing neurodiversity through wayfaring quotes...

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Doing Neurodiversity
EDI Conference

9 Nov 2023
workshop

What if we do not yet know what inclusion is? What if inclusion is not about being welcoming to the "othered" such as the neurodiverse, BIPOC, queer, etc., but rather, what if these bodyminds hold the key to practicing inclusion differently? In this workshop, shy* play proposes to do neurodiversity as a way of exploring an inclusion yet to be imagined...

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shy*play
punt WG

20 May – 10 Jun 2023
event series
shy* play is a series of performative events initiated by Aster Arribas and Antje Nestel, in collaboration with Angelo Custodio, Karime Salame Sainz and Rajni Shah. *shy is used here as a shorthand for shyness, introversion, and neurodivergence. The asterisk gestures a refusal to adhere to a final form of fixed categories...

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shy*play
AHK Day of Teacher/Researcher

02 Feb 2023
workshop

shy* play is a research lab founded by teacher-researchers Aster Arribas and Antje Nestel (ATD/HvA/Co ECI). shy* play departs from the urgency to reflect and craft from the hindrances that the dominant art world’s contexts and approaches have presented us with: In our experience, shy, introverted and neurodivergent manifestations suffered under the regime of...

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Join the shy*play sessions!
ATD and AMFI students

17 Dec 2022, 14 Jan 2023
workshop

shy* play invites students with a close affinity to embodied experiences of shyness, introversion and/or neurodivergence to participate in a workshop dedicated to experiments in shy* sociality. Especially for this workshop, shy* play and its collaborators (ATD and AMFI students) have developed relational techniques emerging from the question: What are shy* characteristics...

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