shy*play is a collective dedicated to dismantling ableism by creating socialities and community through neuroqueering and crip approaches. The collective was initiated four years ago by antje nestel and Aion Arribas as a way for us to sustain and facilitate life by practicing different forms of interdependence, as well as reorienting our artistic and research practices to serve this approach. We work collaboratively, often in co-creation with other artists, activists, and participants. We create and produce participatory events, workshops, reading groups, and courses, and curate and host events within frameworks of disability and neuroqueering.
Our aim is to dismantle ableism and neurotypicality in their imbrication with whiteness and its normopathic nature. Intersectionality is essential to this mission, which we put into practice by bringing together practices and practitioners that tackle oppression differently but within a proximity of approaches. Through these collaborations, we co-create socialities through play and processes of (un)learning, developed through techniques of embodiment, space-making, voice, languaging, reading, and more. We create workshops and events focused on embodying new values and ways of relating to one another through experimentation.
shy*play is partially hosted by DAS Research in Amsterdam
Contact us at:
shy.intro.play@gmail.com
‘Heart of Debts’ collective performative dinner organized by shy*play, (aion and antje on the foreground) with our regular collaborator nat skoczylas (holding the mic in the background). Photo: Thomas Lenden
Website design: nor akelei