Natasha Trotman
ND, YOU, ME: POLYCHRONIC, 2022
Experimental film - 3 min
Neurodivergence (ND) is a term used to describe ways in which the human brain can function, learn and process information differently. Neurodivergence includes Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Conditions, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. Trotman reclaims the term neurodivergent through abstract visual communication and prose, exploring non-typical, intersectional, meta-sectional existences, and tensions between the mainstream and neurodivergent ways of being.
Trotman's experimental film extends the frontiers of polychronic experiences, notions and ways of being through experimental moving image and prose, exploring tethered poly-ND textures, Black ND experiences, multiplicity, compassionate resistance, and multiple forms of connectedness, within the spectrum of ND bodyminds lives and experiences. POLYCHRONIC illuminates ideas on space, time, existences and social ND-focused phenomena from a neurodivergent, disabled lens. POLYPHONIC is part of the Umbrella project ND, YOU, ME.
Trotman's experimental film extends the frontiers of polychronic experiences, notions and ways of being through experimental moving image and prose, exploring tethered poly-ND textures, Black ND experiences, multiplicity, compassionate resistance, and multiple forms of connectedness, within the spectrum of ND bodyminds lives and experiences. POLYCHRONIC illuminates ideas on space, time, existences and social ND-focused phenomena from a neurodivergent, disabled lens. POLYPHONIC is part of the Umbrella project ND, YOU, ME.
About the artist:
Natasha Trotman
www.natashamtrotman.com | @trottykins
Natasha is an international equalities designer and researcher. Intersectional inclusion is central to her practice, which extends the frontiers of knowledge around mental difference and disabilty. She uses investigative play, policy design and multi mode explorations to reframe mainstream ideas of equality, equity, diversity, interdependence, access and inclusion.
Currently an artist in residence at Somerset House’s Studio 48, Natasha is also a design expert specialist for the Design Council. The work exhibited is an experimental film, exploring neurodiversity, compassion, interdependence and the tapestry of ND bodyminds, worlds and experiences. |