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In the rather recent field of neurodivergent academic writing, the neurodiversity paradigm that treats neurodivergent individuals as equals and entitles them to telling their own story opens new pathways to understanding neurodiversity as a variation of human existence, and brings different ways of thinking-making-being into the discourse. Many authors in this still field choose auto-ethnographic approaches as their methodology in order to disrupt the fictitious dichotomy of normal and pathological, opening their experience to a larger audience and uncovering a sensuous world in constant movement. In her auto-ethnographic artistic research Stimming a Space, visual artist AnnaPüschel explores the entiry neurodivergent bodymind to approach accomodations through an embodied neurodivergent lens. She focuses on stimming (self-regulation) as a powerful tool to create safe spaces and presents it as a radical gesture of selfcare. Her research feeds into current decolonial discourses and serves as an invitation to dwell at the margins of the neurotypical universe.

Anja

Anja Veirman is an art historian/anthropologist who is active on the crossroads of textile studies, global art history and audio-visual ethnography. Onto-epistemologies, relations with the more-than-human, embodied knowledge and co-creation are central to her work.

Anna

Anna Püschel works with photography and texts. Within Fluid Futures, she explores stimming - soothing rhythmical movements - as a way to explore how creative practices can contribute to safer spaces for neurodivergent women in the art world.

FLUID FUTURES

LUCA School of Arts. KU Leuven, Gent.

Tuesday 10 June 2025
12h00 - 13h30 

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Faculteitszaal (first floor)
Campus Boekentoren, Blandijn
Blandijnberg 2
Ghent University
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CRCG - Centre for Research on Culture and Gender