Beyond Neoliberal Normativity in Education: The Value of Neurodiversity in the Collaborative Arts�
Alice Wexler
awex26@gmail.com
Fernand Deligny
Caption: Deligny sitting at a desk drawing
Caption: Deligny looking up smoking a cigarette with mountains behind him. Two boys looking in different directions
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
Caption: A boy standing on brick-like rocks in front of a tree holding a cylinder to his eye. Summer 1969
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
“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).
DELINGY
MAPPINGS
Caption: Tracing and mapping of the encampment: pencil/ink on paper
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
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)
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
Caption: Tracing/mapping Wander lines in India Ink transcribing movements of 3 children while making bread. Dots mark children’s places around the table
Caption: Tracing/Mapping on gray background with white erasures and pencil lines
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).
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
“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
“The Team Meeting” Pen and Watercolor on paper, 18x14”, 2017
Caption: Red, green, and blue watercolor in oval design
“Walking in the Apartment,”
Pencil and Charocoal on paper, 16x24”, 2017
Caption:
Vertical pencil and charcoal lines
“The Energy of Behaviourism,” Charcoal on Paper, Notebook, 2017
Caption: charcoal with red and yellow pencil, horizontal design across notebook
“The Behaviorists and Adam,” Charcoal on Vellum, 6x3’, 2018
Caption Charcoal with red, purple, and blue oencil in horizontal design
“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).
“Seizing-Hesitating Path
On a Walk,” Pen on Paper,9x11”, 2017
Caption: Black and red pen in puzzle-like design
“What the Therapists Call Avoidance,” Pen and Pencil on Paper, 9x11”, 2017
Caption: half cirlce with protruding lines
THANK YOU!