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Beyond Neoliberal Normativity in Education: The Value of Neurodiversity in the Collaborative Arts

Alice Wexler

awex26@gmail.com

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Fernand Deligny

Caption: Deligny sitting at a desk drawing

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Caption: Deligny looking up smoking a cigarette with mountains behind him. Two boys looking in different directions

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Caption: Camera crew of three men and a woman. One man is looking through a camera at Deligny siting on the ground with a boy

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Caption: A boy standing on brick-like rocks in front of a tree holding a cylinder to his eye. Summer 1969

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Caption: Two images of the same boy: Top, holding an object in his hand and looking down. Bottom: holding object to his face

Summer 1996

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“My aim is to limit myself to the ingenuity of innate action, to be awed by it, and not try to clear up its mysteries” (Ogilvie, p. 12).

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DELINGY

MAPPINGS

Caption: Tracing and mapping of the encampment: pencil/ink on paper

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Caption: Le Serret, 1975

Background map and tracing.�Broad lines are in black pastel are of adult Jean Liin. The wander lines in india ink are of a child. Both accompanied by sheep, hoofprints around map

The ringing off sheep bells are repreented by

clusters of dots. The sounds of a flute and a bell on the top, center , and bottom. At top child strayed from path

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The slightest gesture, the slightest word, the slightest silence, as we know, counts, then not so much so that knowledge can be produced and a cure can follow, or a reintegration into the human community, but more fundamentally so that a life can take pace anew, even and especially if, to us, it does not appear to be “adapted.” (Ogilvie, 2015, p. 17)

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Monoblet, 1976

Caption: Tracing/Mapping Background is a freehand sketch of the kitchen with tables + stools at top, sink at the bottom, entrance on left. Wander lines are in India ink are superimposed

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Caption: Tracing/mapping Wander lines in India Ink transcribing movements of 3 children while making bread. Dots mark children’s places around the table

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Caption: Tracing/Mapping on gray background with white erasures and pencil lines

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dis assembly

“We think with art, human and non-human processes, objects, atmospheres, movement, poetry, language, philosophy, critical disability studies, in relation” (Klar & Wolfond, https://www.dis-assembly.ca/#historymission para, 7).

 

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RELATIONSHAPES DRAWING SERIES

Estée Klar

“The Typical Classroom,”

Watercolor on Paper, 2017

Caption: Red, green and grey watercolor. Red splaters on circular shape with projecting lines, with green lines leading to the bottom of the page

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“The Time it Takes to Get

Out The Door

Pen and Charcoal on paper

9x11”, 2017

Caption: Light charcoal spiral in center with circular pen lines superimposed

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“The Team Meeting” Pen and Watercolor on paper, 18x14”, 2017

Caption: Red, green, and blue watercolor in oval design

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“Walking in the Apartment,”

Pencil and Charocoal on paper, 16x24”, 2017

Caption:

Vertical pencil and charcoal lines

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“The Energy of Behaviourism,” Charcoal on Paper, Notebook, 2017

Caption: charcoal with red and yellow pencil, horizontal design across notebook

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“The Behaviorists and Adam,” Charcoal on Vellum, 6x3’, 2018

Caption Charcoal with red, purple, and blue oencil in horizontal design

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“When autistic perception meets the world, something fundamentally changes the field of relation. This field of relation “includes” the “we” that is not “I”” (Manning, 2013, p. 199).

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“Seizing-Hesitating Path

On a Walk,” Pen on Paper,9x11”, 2017

Caption: Black and red pen in puzzle-like design

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“What the Therapists Call Avoidance,” Pen and Pencil on Paper, 9x11”, 2017

Caption: half cirlce with protruding lines

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THANK YOU!