Tag: dating
Dating, speed-dating, matchmaking are parts of my ongoing investigations through the interdisciplinary paradigm of productive antagonisms (Latham and Tan 2016, a curatorial/pedagogical method to collide diverse and divergent bodies and bodies of thought to catalyse [difficult] dialogues), and being ill-disciplined (Tan and Asherson 2018, interdisciplinary conversation and/or collaboration + playful subversion of constructs of ‘illness’). In a world of fear, walls, closed borders and minds and siloed/protectionist approaches, this is about conversation and collaboration, through valuing and celebrating differences and trespassing boundaries (cultural, geopolitical, disciplinary and more).
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What could our future look like? Even — or especially — when the absurdity and extra-ordinariness of how things are makes this a preposterous question to raise, let alone respond to, it is imperative that we insist, persist, and resist, by making, re-making, re-imagining and re-inventing our truths, to re-write our own stories, histories and futures, to work through our pain, trauma and joys. Come ‘Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine our (Collective) Future Together’, at a group show Ordinary Things (02-25 November 2023), The Winchester Gallery, curated by Professor of Visual Politics Louise Siddons.
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What would a neurodiversity-led reality look like? My installation and performance at the Attenborough Arts Centre in the exhibition The World is A Work In Progress (curated by Rachel Graves, 25 September 2021 – 16 January 2022) in Leicester, UK proposes that art and neuro-inclusion are key in creating bold visions of how things can be better, and that each of us can play an active part in that process.
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Seeking collaborators/sponsors: I aim to curate a residency-cum-collaboration programme that will lead to an exhibition asking, ‘What Could A Neurodiversity-led 2050 Look Like?’ I want to matchmake unlikely pairs of neurodiverse artists and designers with scientists and technologists, and choreograph ways for them to work collaboratively towards the co-creation of new pilots and prototypes of apps, objects or experiences.