Neurodivergent Pickling is an ephemeral installation, a ritual, and an endurance performance. Over the span of several hours, two neurodivergent performers obsessively wash, cut, and line up vegetables until the floor is filled with them, before turning them into pickles. The piece proposes to invite neurodivergent gestures into the realm of food. The process of making Persian pickles [Shoori شوری] turns into a framed fractal motion, offering a reflection on culture and rituals. It points to cooking as a way to remain connected to one’s cultural roots and to the culture minoritarian individuals co-create - through the reinvention of pickle making as a neurodivergent ritual. At the end of the performance audience members are invited to take home a jar of neurodivergent pickles, and can discover the taste of obsession a few weeks later.
Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar with a focus on identity and displacement. Her work examines how constructed and politicized forms of identity simultaneously create entanglements, barriers, and liberations in individuals. Niyoosha obtained her Master of Arts in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch in 2017.
Julie Dind is an autistic butoh performer, academic and multimedia artist. Her work autistically explores Autistic modes of performance. She is currently a PhD candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Since 2012, she collaborates with multimedia artist Rolf Gerstlauer on an autistic-artistic project titled “Drawing NN inside butoh", engaging in transdisciplinary research-creation works.
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Ongoing performance from 11am to 7pm. Audience is free to enter, leave and come back at any moment.
Location
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen St.