UnMasked: Neurodiversity and Performance

Many neurodivergent people create and perform. It could be our over-active minds, a need to carve out our own niche in the world, or a need to express ourselves in a world that doesn’t get us. Or maybe we seek creative outlets in the same way neurotypical people do. Through acting, performance, writing and music, neurodivergent people are making themselves known.

Join us with multidisciplinary artist The Mollusc Dimension, discussing his creative practice with an ND host. This event is for the ND people who are expressing themselves, wish to start expressing themselves and want to understand how to and where the parameters are (and aren’t). It is also for anyone, ND or not, seeking to understand people, performance and creativity and how is can liberate and consol those of us who are different.

The Mollusc Dimension is a British-Chinese, trans, queer, neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist. His colourful graphic memoir The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse was shortlisted by The Selfies Book Awards for non-fiction. He has received two project grants from Arts Council England for the latter and also for his music video Asians Have Feelings Too which received the “Favourite Award” at the Trans Pride Brighton Film Festival. The Mollusc Dimension’s art and writing appears or is forthcoming in: Aghh! Zine, Butch Bait, Covert, Queer Out Here, t’ART, Wasafiri, Wrong Directions and others.