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This performance-lecture draws on Kai Syng Tan’s new book Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership: An A-Z towards Collective Liberation (Palgrave Macmillan 2024), which calls for a re-imagination of ‘leadership’ as a trans-disciplinary, (co-)creative, diversified, decolonised, neuro-queered practice of change and future-making.

The event will also feature a response by the collective shy*play (Aion Arribas and Antje Nestel) as they interpret the book of Kai through their lens of doing neurodiversity. Their intersectional approach is rooted in their art practice, which explores the potential of neurodiversity to create artful socialities beyond the dominance of normality.

Sanne Kersten will host the event.

After the presentations, there will be drinks.

To attend, please register here.

Kai Syng Tan PhD PFHEA is an artist-academic–author-agitator. Hyper-active and tentacular, Kai (she/they) activates artistic and artful processes and strategies to catalyse novel insights, dialogues and actions for a more equitable and creative future. By day Kai is Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership, University of Southampton, UK.

shy*play is a collective co-initiated by Aion Arribas and antje nestel operating at the intersection of art-as-process, education, and neurodiversity. Neurodiversity is emphasized in shy*play’s work as a relational practice in difference, as ways of doing. antje and Aion are fellows of the 3rd cycle research program THIRD.

Sanne Kersten leads Arts Beyond Ableism at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, which aims to address and unlearn ableism in the arts, education, and society.

Credit for third photo: Simon Pillaud