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Image courtesy the artist
Talk
Shy Radicals: The Black Panthers for Shy People
16 May 2019
Event times
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost of entry
Free, no booking required.
Address
- Battersea Park
- London
- SW11 4NJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 137,19,44,49,239,249,319
- Sloane Square
- Battersea Park / Queenstown Road
Join us for an artist’s talk with Hamja Ahsan. Hamja talks about his debut book Shy Radicals, imagining a utopic homeland called ‘Aspergistan’, in the context of debates around intersectionality, radical mental health and neurodiversity.
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Join us for an artist’s talk with Hamja Ahsan. Hamja talks about his debut book Shy Radicals, imagining a utopic homeland called ‘Aspergistan’, in the context of debates around intersectionality, radical mental health and neurodiversity.
How can citizenship, nationalism and the state be reimagined to be more homely to neurodivergent people? Can shy, awkward and neurodiverse people be reimagined as dissenters, subversives and revolutionary leaders? How can art and performance reimagine identity and society to make life less alienating?
Drawing from the worlds of teen movies, constitutions and human rights law, the rhetorics of 1960s Liberation movements and anticolonial struggles, grunge and indie music and anti-psychiatry, Hamja explores these questions. Recent developments, such as the birth of the neurodivergent Labour movement, and attempts to recontextualise the project in Post-Tito Slovenia, will be further elaborated on.
The talk will be followed by a book-signing.
