By Rainbow Chan 陳雋然. To accompany 'The novice, fry and fledging 我全未曉', the lament is reworked into an electronic composition using vocal manipulation, field-recordings and conversation fragments with Weitou elders. 'The novice, fry and fledging 我全未曉' is free to view at Arts House 6-24 May 2024.

Expressions of Interest (EOI) submissions for CultureLAB residencies between July 2024 and June 2025 will open Thursday 16 November and close Tuesday 23 January 2024. Find out more here https://www.artshouse.com.au/artist-opportunities/culturelab/

The Warehouse Residency is Arts House’s main commissioning pathway for Deaf and Disability led projects developed at North Melbourne Town Hall. Expression of Interests (EOIs) will open Thursday 16 November 2023 for projects taking place between June 2024 – June 2025, and close Tuesday 23 January 2024. Find out more here https://www.artshouse.com.au/artist-opportunities/the-warehouse-residency/

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

This is a summary of Arts House’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023 – 2028 narrated by Kath Duncan. This plan is available in alternative formats on the Arts House website: www.artshouse.com.au

Equity Builder Track 1 by Arts House Listening Program

Equity Builder Track 2 by Arts House Listening Program

Equity Builder Track 3 by Arts House Listening Program

Equity Builder Track 4 by Arts House Listening Program

(suspended brain, projections): Are you projecting other people’s ideas all over my neurology? Head in the clouds, raising my consciousness with the help of the tech team, making my MRI 3D. --- Society can project a lot of harmful stereotypes onto the autistic community. We commonly experience a world where people don’t understand our responses. I want to project a future where autism is valued and stimming is seen as beautiful. I want to project my values of inclusivity onto you. I hope...

(Self-portrait as both ape and topless woman) wild and tame, strong and vulnerable, stupid and smart, masc and femme, masking and unable to mask: I can’t make a world without discrimination, I can’t end all ableism, I CAN draw a picture that holds us in the face of everything. --- Sometimes it’s so raw when you can’t regulate - if you’re under pressure, or out in society. I judge myself so much, forgetting not to feel all the things my early carers said to me. Please, don’t judge me for...

(Mermaid deer mask painting): Don’t look at my mystical mermaid deer winged body. I’m totally a regular norm-core human, that masks real good. --- Masking is a terminology for hiding or suppressing one’s attributes. Many autistic people develop this skill in response to discrimination. It can be hard to know what you want, if you’re pretending your needs don’t matter. It’s really hard to know when to mask. It’s still occasionally important for reasons of safety for me to repress my needs to...

(blob painting): sometimes I like it when my executive functions drop. I can like being over stimulated, sometimes it’s funny and confusing. I can get sound to touch synesthesia; it can tickle me in weird places, like my organs. --- It’s nice to show myself without a mouth when I can’t talk. With no eyes, when I can’t process the visual information I’m getting. With no head, when I can’t catch a thought or remember what’s happening. And all the hands when I’m doing so much sensing. I tried to...

(Questionnaire): “I’m not testing your responses, it’s only because I’m not a qualified neurologist and it hasn’t been passed by an ethics board” - and the other barriers between us… I made a game where I secretly test people’s global abstract reasoning. Although it’s not so secret because I have no filter and I tell everyone that’s what I’m doing.” --- I want to invite you to imagine what it’s like to have your neurology examined, and share the most beautiful part of being tested - which is...

(brain canvases) In collection we gestalt: A flock of birds in the wind A school of fish in the ocean Responding to water and wind Like minds moving in collection, together we gestalt --- Because these are the artworks of around 50 contributing artists it is a bit weird to title it for everyone. I don’t feel an ownership over my ideas or artworks. I do not believe in my identity as separate from society. I don’t believe my psychology is separate from my ancestry. I believe everything I make...

(braille book): Seeing through fingers with the eyes of my body feels good --- One of the wonderful things about this project was finding out that some people who are partially sighted or have low vision have a strong relationship with stimming. It is sad to find out that they have experienced similar forms of shaming and restraining to me. I love to rock my body and use proprioception to sense where I am in space. I have 20/20 vision and the backs of my retinas are enlarged. I’m very light...

(Film): Culture expressed through gesture, sensations all over, and the way the world understands itself: we don’t want to put anything in here that doesn’t make it better. --- I wanted to obscure the meaning for the audience, because my experience of autism feels obscure for me. I asked everyone the hardest political questions that I don’t know the answer to. Many of them are not even in my minority. They all reported being put on the spot was quite confronting for them. Even though they...

(third sound cone, chin hair recording): Chin Hair is the name of our new band. --- Chin Hair is improvisational lyrical abstractionist, dada Da Da dada daa-ists, non-modern modernist in a post-post-post-modernist city, deconstructing slime, pixels, stim vocabularies, and other ephemeral and mutable mediums. Recontextualising recycled and household objects as art supplies and renegade instruments, in combination with traditional artistic techniques and practices. Chin Hair is new-wave...

(Sound cone that goes with sensory stim brain): I was thinking about you, lovely member of the general public. There’s probably nothing general about you. I don’t believe that normal exists. --- I have sound to touch synesthesia and audio sensory issues. It’s like the volume of the world has been turned up way too high. Inside me it is always quiet. I can’t talk in my head. I can’t read in my head. I can’t sing or play music in my head, and when I dream it is always silent. Chelle Destefano...