Title: A Piece of Mind.
Socio-Political Topic - Autism
Engaging with an audience includes role reversals, fourth-wall breaks, and making the audience part of the experience.
Clips: I would use the video Meditation to add fourth wall break dialogue and some new video clips to show the immersion of the inner mind. The latest video clips, however, haven’t been confirmed yet.
Why you have chosen this topic and form of outreach?
I chose Autism because I want to spread awareness of this condition and help ordinary people understand how we think and behave. I chose YouTube as a form of outreach because it’s easier to find and reach out to others faster.
Clips: I would use the video Meditation to add fourth wall break dialogue and some new video clips to show the immersion of the inner mind. The latest video clips, however, haven’t been confirmed yet.
What I am trying to convey: The camera shows the audience the perspective of autism while explaining their conditions and inner workings. My friend Samuel and I will use dialogue to explain our condition to the audience. When it comes to autism, it’s like a movie that plays on and on, and you're a part of the show. It’s often known to be our inner worlds where we think and imagine many fictional or real-life scenarios, but they are frequently linked. It happens involuntarily without awareness because we constantly think as observers. We are detached from reality and learning to connect with the world around us with a thirst for knowledge. Getting to know us better to understand how we see the world and treating us usually would make us uncomfortable because our perspectives are different compared to people without autism. Include us as part of a new perspective you didn’t know about. Not all autistic people are incredibly gifted, so don’t generalize us for autism. It is patronizing to generalize everyone with autism as being extremely talented at one thing. We have other talents, too; some people have multiple as well as other facets that come with autism besides skills.
How does this project fit into your professional aspirations and your portfolio?
I engage the audience with my projects, professional aspirations, and portfolio. I used the video Meditation to add a fourth wall break dialogue and some new video clips to show the immersion of the inner mind. The latest video clips, however, haven’t been confirmed yet. This also taught me how to engage an audience by using dialogue to help the audience, as well as myself, understand what we are saying without making it dull.
What artists or other projects have influenced or inspired your own project? List 4+ artists that connect with your project with brief explanations of why they connect or inspired your own project.
Four artists that connect to me:
Yoko Ono: For her performance art “Cut Piece,” she sits on the floor and lets the audience cut her clothes, which makes the audience a part of the performance. I like how she sat down and did nothing, so I used that for the act of “A Piece of Mind.”
Nick Cave: The sound suits were intriguing because he explained how they represent a sense of discarding and using these objects to create a suit. However, for me, they represent a feeling of inner limbo during the imagination process autistic people go through.
Stephen Wiltshire: He is autistic and has a different art medium to express himself: drawing. My medium is analyzing entertainment films, shows, and video games and writing comics. We have a common interest in art, and our experiences debunk the myth that autistic people are good at only one thing.
Lee Krasner: Her painting Sun Woman was made through the trauma she went through from a husband who was addicted to alcohol to betrayal and even the loss of her husband to suicide. The painting is described as wild, exuberant, and dancing around chaotically. This helped me understand how to explain my speeches by connecting them to what I feel and experience as an autistic person.
What research has helped you inform this project? List 5+ resources that informed or inspired your project in a resource list at the end of your project summary.
I researched Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Stephen Wiltshire, Lee Krasner, and the National Institute of Mental Health, using my personal experiences. These resources have helped me be informed about “A Piece of Mind.” Yoko Ono’s cute piece inspired me to sit down and meditate on a couch rather than on the floor. Nick Cave’s sound suits inspired me to let ourselves drift off into our minds. Lee Krasner helped me be in tune with my feelings and put that into words. I relate to Stephen Wiltshire because he had autism like me, and I discovered he had a talent for drawing London buildings. In contrast, I had a talent for analyzing entertainment media and writing comics. The National Institute of Mental Health explains how Autistic individuals experience the world around them, which helped me in my work.
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