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A Neurodiverse Fabulation: Techniques for Neurodiverse Futurities
Amsterdam

26 Feb 2025
lecture-performacne
Guided by the question "What can neurodiversity do?", the collective shy*play will story their art and pedagogical practice of Doing Neurodiversity. Aion and antje will tell one of the many stories that make up the ever-evolving world of shy*play, foregrounding its urgency, emergence, desires, and techniques of improvisation...

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What if... Neurodiversity? Symposium
ATD Research Month
Amsterdam

22 Jan 2025
symposium

 A one-day event for anyone who is interested in art and neurodiversity curated by shy*play.  

This event combines talks and practical workshops to explore the relationship between art and neurodiversity together with artists who identify as neurodivergent and scholars working in disability studies.

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Doing Neurodiversity: Wayfaring Words
Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium UNIARTS, Helsinki

22 Nov 2024
workshop

A workshop focused on creating conditions that facilitate different ways of learning with language. Neurotypicality values methods of learning with language that are orally spoken and written in a standardized manner, aligning with ordinary or common sense...

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Doing Neurodiversity
WHISPERING SKINS, FLAM Festival
Amsterdam

2 Nov 2024
workshop

shy*play especially invites bodyminds with a close affinity for embodied experiences of shyness, introversion and/or neurodivergence, as well as its many intersections, to participate in a workshop dedicated to experiments in neurodivergent sociality.

Throughout the duration of the workshop, a 300-meter-long fabric composed of various textures and opacities will be used as a space shifter...

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Xogo-Tímido / facer a neurodiversidade
DESFOGA, Galicia, Spain

3 and 4 Oct 2024
workshop

Un taller dedicado a la sociabilidad tímida*, desarrollado con técnicas relacionales que surgen de la pregunta: ¿cómo pueden las características tímidas* servir de trampolín hacia diferentes tipos de socialización? (Agrupamos en tímidas* diversas tendencias de relación de espectros tímidos, introvertidos y neurodivergentes)...

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Experiments for
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
Amsterdam

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
Rotterdam

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
Amsterdam

20 May – 10 Jun 2023
event series
A series of performative events in collaboration with Angelo Custodio, Karime Salame Sainz and Rajni Shah.

PuntWG will act as a laboratory where shy*play will collaborate with visiting humans and more-than-humans in exploring techniques that employ the voice, space, relationality, and performativity...

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shy*play
AHK Day of Teacher/Researcher
Amsterdam

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
Amsterdam

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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