As the director, he and his team of multidisciplinary neurodivergent artists, consultants, and educators aim to bring neurodivergent lives, insights, and experiences to the stage. He works as the Access and Inclusion Coordinator for RISING, Access Coordinator for MIFF, and The Artistic Director of A_tistic.
Tom Middleditch is an ASD/ADHD artist and access and inclusion specialist in Melbourne Australia. Using physical, aural and visual props, Stéphanie will offer conversationalists a phsyically immersive insight into her life as a synaesthete as she discusses neurodiversity and mental health and the positive outcomes that arise from opening yourself up to more sensory experiences. Life’s a trip in Stéphanie’s world, and as multidisciplinary artist and composer she invites you into the journey.
#Awkward conversations full
Fluorescent globes are Star Wars light sabers burning eyes and splitting her skull to the sound of high volume electrical noise, that squeaky trolley wheel at the supermarket induces full body pins and needles and yet music is often like billowing rainbow clouds she can only assume are akin to being on LSD. Stéphanie experiences the world through several forms of synaesthesia (sound/colour/texture, auditory-tactile, spatial sequence), meaning that she will experience a single stimulus like sound or light as a range of multi-sensory effects. What might you make, and what might you not be able to make, in the company of another person? Can you enjoy yourself with someone else? Spend time drawing, writing, doodling, playing or making with various art supplies in the company of Nicola, while she reads to you from her book. ‘You’re trying to work out what’s stopping you enjoying each other’s company’, says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on a good outcome for therapy. Her book Unlike the Heart explores her experience of anxiety via an interrogation of the workings of talking therapy and medication. Nicola Redhouse is a writer who is interested in the ways we think about and treat mental pain, and the capacity for talking therapy to make real and lasting change, and for words and communications to hold subterranean secrets. Talk if you like, or let the conversation be guided by your creative endeavours. Join Daniel in a collaborative visual conversation focusing on your current emotional landscape by constructing and reconstituting his photographs and found imagery. Drawing on his own experience with self-injury and self-harm, Daniel finds language in photography in the absence of words (and it helps). Her memoir, Late Bloomer, celebrates the realities of Autistic experience and considers the “what if” moments throughout her life through the prism of late-diagnosed self-knowledge.Įxperience the world as Clem does through an immersive audio experience, followed by a conversation using sensory elements to explore and explode myths and misconceptions about Autism, and how it has shaped Clem’s life in powerful ways.ĭaniel found his voice through pictures. It wasn’t until Clem was diagnosed as Autistic, at age 36, that things clicked into focus. Please note: Anna Spargo Ryan will be appearing virtually for this session.Ĭlem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. Join Anna for a conversation about the words we use to articulate the psychology and physiology of mental health, how they restrict us, and how bringing poetry into medicine can make everyone’s life a bit easier. Presented in partnership with RMIT Culture and UNSW as part of The Big AnxietyĪnna is a perpetually anxious writer who uses lyricism to offer new language describing the experience of life with psychosis and other serious mental illness.
To participate in this event you must be 18+.
#Awkward conversations series
Maybe you’ll have a discussion with someone unexpected, sit in silence, or talk through the experience of being different.Īwkward Conversations is a series of one-on-one encounters that interrogate and expand on what constitutes a conversation.
Participants are invited to engage in one-on-one conversations with guest artists Clem Bastow, Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe, Debra Keenahan, Tom Middleditch, Peta Murray, Khin Myint, Nicola Redhouse, Daniel Regan and Anna Spargo-Ryan. What if you say the wrong thing? What if you make too much eye contact? Or not enough? What if nothing is spoken at all? Or your conversational partner is unlike anyone you have ever met before?Īwkward Conversations plays with the idea that discussions about mental health are inevitably ‘awkward’, setting creative artists and inspiring thinkers the task of making them inviting, accessible, stimulating, meaningful and personal. Sometimes the best conversations are awkward.
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