Quiet crits
Delivery for Primary Exchange 2 project with TURF projects. (click)
Some of the approaches for quiet crits consider the perceptual barriers that neurodivergent adults might encounter when joining a crit. The cultural conventions, accepted behaviours and behavioural norms of ‘meeting places’ aren’t easy to access and aren’t understood by everyone and in fact may be exclusionary or hostile to neurodivergent bodyminds. Drawing as Stimming thinks that people who have worked within organisations for a long time forget that there are a lot of cultural behaviours that are implied, but not stated. The quiet crits take care to particularly value sensory modes of understanding as equal to verbal and written forms of interpretation and to decentralise verbal language as the only way to engage with a crit.
These have been delivered at Primary in Nottingham, Turf Projects, Croydon as part of Exchange 2 project in collaboration with Sage Stephanou and The Tetley Leeds in collaboration with Nicola Singh.
Sam has mentored a number of neurodivergent adults and young people for their drawing as stimming project including independent artists and for Attenborough Arts Centre