Dx: Diagnosis and Writing
Push Pull
Push-pull is a neurodivergent adventure in writing that explores the tensions and in-betweenness of navigating my dual diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the intertwined practices of art, writing and research. In my practice(s) as a visual artist, researcher, lecturer (and everything in-between), my writing is my art practice and my art practice is my writing. Both are also my research exploring art and/as language. In searching for a visual and other language, my work often takes hybrid forms traversing the visual, textual, and material registers of language. But, even in these new spaces I still do not quite fit. Undertaken over a period of four weeks as a durational writing practice, I will share the in-between hybrid forms of writing and their slippages that emerge performatively from the collisions and meta-narratives I encounter along the way, informing an experimental text produced for the Dx and Writing website. I hope to show the possibilities of my diagnoses, whereby not fitting in becomes fertile ground for new forms of writing practice.
About Jacqueline Taylor
Dr Jacqueline Taylor is a neurodivergent artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Research Practice and Director of Doctoral Education at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University where she specialises in developing provocative pedagogies for doctoral students in the arts and design. Jacqueline’s research examines the ways in which non-representational aesthetic practices function as a form of language. She is particularly interested in utilising aspects of semiotics and philosophy to inform a poetics of painting. She exhibits her art practice internationally, and presents, performs, and publishes her research globally, often in forms which expand the parameters of the academic and written text. Jacqueline’s lectures and talks are often performative and tend to involve a lot
of paper that ends up on the floor. She is also unapologetically fond of glitter canons and making a mess in institutions.
Access her CV and full bibliography at writingmakingspace.com
