Rash-Analogy Workshop with Daniel Oliver

If you go to the doctor about a rash but on that day the rash disappears what do you do? Draw it on? Tickle the doctor in just the right way so they know what it felt like? Or create the conditions for the rash to arise again?

This is a workshop about different ways of presenting, representing, and re-enacting neurodivergent experience in performance.

The session will be held on Zoom. We will email you a link to join plus more detailed information ahead of the event. The workshop will last two hours with a comfort break in the middle. Daniel Oliver will host, with support from Grace and Jo.

Please let us know your access requirements when booking, we have some additional budget to support this.

Image description: A colour photo of Daniel Oliver (a white man with a brown beard and hair, with checked shirt, jeans and fried-egg socks) standing in front of a plastic sheet, crudely hung and painted green. He is mid-speech, gesturing with his right hand, addressing a crowd of three people (with more presumably out of shot behind the camera) in the doorway to a performance space, with white fabric covering the floor, and silver and gold foil and glow sticks piled up in a corner.

Image credit: performance dork may 2023 Disrupt Festival, Cambridge Junction, by Claire Haigh

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Daniel Oliver is a dyspraxic performance artist, lecturer, and researcher. He makes raucous, dyspraxic-led performance worlds with mysterious and complex back stories that audiences are drawn into and take roles in.

Making Time is run by Grace Denton and Jo Hauge, it is a series of online events for neurodivergent artists, writers or researchers. If you/your work falls slightly outside of these parameters but you feel like it’s for you, then it’s for you! You also do not have to have a diagnosis to join, and while talking about diagnostic processes and different neurodivergent traits is totally welcome, there’s no expectation that you’ll share any of those details with the group.

Making Time sessions usually run on Monday mornings, but this series of workshops aims to expand them out into the evenings to enable more/different people to join. We invited some members of our community, plus some other neurodivergent artists we admire, to lead these on whatever topic they wish.

We have a website coming soon. For now, if you'd like to join our mailing list, please email hello@gracedenton.co.uk and/or jo.hauge@northumbria.ac.uk