Laurie Anderson: musings of an admirer

January 10, 2008, 11:55 pm

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Laurie Anderson: post-modern Renaissance woman, Houdini of artistic stereotype and 21st century iconoclast. There is no ‘frame’ or ‘box’ in which Laurie Anderson may be contained – she is an idiosyncratic artist with a powerful, dynamic persona projected through her … Continue reading →

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My Life with Hypersensitivity and Asperger’s

May 14, 2012, 8:22 pm

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My Life with Hypersensitivity and Asperger’s – lecture notes from a session with professionals in special education, specifically about sensory acuity and coping with hypersensitivity. (UNSW, School of Education, 14 May 2012, 5-7pm.) —– Thank you, Dr. Iva Strnadova, and … Continue reading →

Art in a Hidden World – creative process and invisible anomaly

January 13, 2013, 8:39 pm

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Paper presented in The Arts in Society 2012 conference Published by The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 7 (2013), p. 29-39; and in the process of publication in The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, (Common … Continue reading →

Thinking Through The Body – a multimodal approach from autism

January 13, 2013, 8:50 pm

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Paper presented at the International Conference for Research Creativity: Praxis, Baptist University of Hong Kong, 21-23 November 2012. —   ABSTRACT How should the artist approach practice and research without becoming so overly abstract that the grounded, proprioceptive concreteness of … Continue reading →

Reciprocating Self and Other – lessons from autism.

November 19, 2013, 4:28 pm

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Reciprocating Self and Other – lessons from autism by Dawn-joy Leong Conference paper presented at the Inter-Disciplinary.Net conference, Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners Thursday 5th September – Saturday 7th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Abstract. (Paper currently in the process … Continue reading →

Scheherazade’s Sea – autistic parallel embodiment and elemental empathy

September 17, 2015, 5:26 am

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Paper presented at UNSW Art & Design Postgraduate Conference, 17-19 June 2015. —— My Ph.D dissertation, tentatively entitled, Scheherazade’s Sea – autistic parallel embodiment and elemental empathy, is part of a protracted journey in search for Being: a detailed study … Continue reading →

Autism and me: a lifelong quest for Beingness and Clemency of Being

October 10, 2015, 7:32 pm

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Autism and me: a lifelong quest for Beingness and clemency of Being. Guest lecture, 27 August 2015, School of Education, UNSW, Australia. Thank you, Dr. Iva Strnadova, for inviting me to deliver this guest lecture since 2012. It has become … Continue reading →

Latest Project – Sonata in Z

October 21, 2015, 3:05 pm

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Dawn-joy Leong and Lucy present Sonata in Z 10-14 November 2015 | 10am-5pm Nick Waterlow Gallery, UNSW Galleries UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia. An autistic human, A greyhound dog. Parallel Embodiments, A journey of Being. Endeavour of … Continue reading →

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The Big Anxiety Project

June 3, 2016, 8:41 pm

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“The BIG Anxiety Project is an innovative citizen science venture developing creative approaches to health research and data visualization.” Lucy and I are honoured to be a small part of this amazing project, which kicks-off on 5 June 2016, at … Continue reading →

Acknowledgements

July 25, 2016, 1:58 am

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Dear Friends and Supporters, We have made it! The PhD has passed muster and now it’s time for acknowledgements.  —- Scheherazade’s Sea – autism, parallel embodiment and elemental empathy.  Dawn-joy Sau Mun Leong, UNSW Art & Design, April 2016 Dedication: To … Continue reading →

Snoösphere 2017 – call out!

October 16, 2016, 10:45 pm

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Upcoming project: Call Out! Snoösphere 2017 – a multisensory experience with a focus on autism, featuring autistic creative partnership. Lull Studios and UNSW would like to invite autistic persons of all ages to join us as creative advisors in designing … Continue reading →

lalaloubelle

December 17, 2016, 12:42 am

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Lucy and I are back in Singapore for 2017. Three projects coming up under the BIG Anxiety Festival 2017 in Sydney, a publication in the works, some community work in home country, and… I am making stuff again! LaLaLouBelle is … Continue reading →

Snoösphere 2017 in Singapore!

April 22, 2017, 5:41 pm

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Snoösphere 2017 is coming to Singapore! Calling for autistic participants to join us in this exciting project. We need your feedback and advice! As part of our Australia-Singapore alliance / inter-city collaboration, Team Snoösphere will be in Singapore to meet with Singaporean … Continue reading →

The BIG Anxiety!!!

May 16, 2017, 2:02 am

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Multitasking at a frenetic pace and with zinging intensity is not one of my innate talents, but I am attacking it all with as much gung-ho as I can possibly muster. Things are coming to a crescendo-accelerando now… exploring anxiety and … Continue reading →

defragmenting

May 20, 2017, 7:35 pm

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Scattered pieces. Little chips, broken off a brittle whole. Windblown. Each one a part of entity, identity and embodied Beingness. Sensory assault. Social weariness. Harsh terrains of normative colonial tyranny, treading through landscapes only the very bravest dare to traverse, … Continue reading →

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On the Red Dot – autism

July 25, 2017, 5:41 pm

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Lucy and I were featured on Mediacorp’s Channel 5 – On the Red Dot – last week, 21 July 2017. The programme was about autism in Singapore. The full programme is at the Toggle site – though I am told … Continue reading →

Snoösphere in the News!

October 4, 2017, 9:59 pm

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Snoösphere has been in the news in Australia! ABC Lateline featured Snoösphere on 20 September 2017: “Snoosphere: the art installation tackling mental illness.” A news write up: Snoösphere, an art installation designed to relax, opens at The Big Anxiety festival. And we even … Continue reading →

Reflections on the neurodiverse city

October 28, 2017, 7:20 pm

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My article for Artlink Magazine, “Reflections on the neurodiverse city,” is now free to access online. Click on the title for the full article. Excerpt: “Many autistics experience “body‑in‑space” challenges. The opening poem describes my own proprioceptive quirk: I can … Continue reading →

Inside the Heart of the Rainbow

October 28, 2017, 7:29 pm

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Forgive the delay in posting this. So much has been going on in the last two months, I can hardly catch my breath even now. Here is the review I wrote for Artlink Magazine, covering the recent Yayoi Kusama exhibition … Continue reading →

Autism and the Arts

October 28, 2017, 7:38 pm

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An excellent article by Katie Sutherland in The Conversation about Autism and the Arts. It is both a relief and a joy when non-autistic writers or producers etc write / make features that are respectful, inclusive and accurate when portraying … Continue reading →