Exploratorium
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Stitching the Future with Clues by Allison Leigh Holt with Kit Young and Amma Ateria
Thursday, May 11, 2023
7:30pm
A Co-presentation with The Exploratorium as part of After Dark: Thought and Action
Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum, The Exploratorium

Shapeshifters is pleased to co-present Allison Holt's expanded cinema presentation of Stitching the Future with Clues, a neurodivergent-futurist manifesto performance which will be presented as part of After Dark: Thought and Action at The Exploratorium. Looking at neurodivergence as a way of knowing, through a cybernetic frame, it combines animated diagrams, video and audio feedback processes, and expanded media techniques, drawing from Holt’s article "THE CONVERSATION: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence" (PUBLIC Journal #59: Interspecies Communication) to consider feedback systems as a medium for understanding the sensing, processing, and exchanging of information happening not just in human minds and brains, but within and between all scales of intelligent life. With text, animation, performance, and editing by Allison Leigh Holt; video synthesis by Kit Young and sound by electronic musician Amma Ateria, this film explores the post-humanist sense-making of neurodivergence: differently-attuned to temporal, psychic, and environmental embodied experience. A post-screening dialogue will take place between artist Allison Leigh Holt and neuroscientist Clifford Saron, PhD.