Applications for the Spring Equinox edition of the Grant for Neuroqueering Humans are now open.
The successful applicant will receive £1000 to be used for their Neuroqueering creative practice.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 GMT on March 1st, 2023.
The grant period commences on March 20th and ends on May 1st.
Contents of this email:
What is Neuroqueering?
What is the Network of Neuroqueering Humans?
Why does this grant exist?
How to Apply
FAQ
1. What is Neuroqueering?
Neuroqueer is a verb and an adjective, an action and an identity. Neuroqueering is contingent upon and fascinated by neurodivergence and queerness. Neuroqueering is a sensorial trip, felt deeply within a sensing body. Neuroqueering is culturing and sheltering. Neuroqueering has the potential to transform everything that it touches – and not into gold, but a queerer and more interesting prima materia. Neuroqueering is a psychic revolt, an appropriation of time as a medium for the propagation of power.
Neuroqueering is not a solitary pursuit. It is continuous and simultaneous broadcast and reception. It is inherently relational [internally and externally] and collective; it is the consensual cocreation of the plural I, where all subjects contained within are animate, conscious and equally constitutive of the totality.
The Grant for Neuroqueering Humans’ definition of Neuroqueering practice is directly inspired and influenced by (amongst others) Nick Walker, M. Remi Yergeau, Damian Milton, Louisa Shaeri, Robert Chapman, Jesse Meadows, Neptune Henriksen, Claude Cahun, Danni Spooner, Sam Metz, Travis Alabanza, flannery o’kafka, Bernard Steigler, Shayne Oliver, Jenny Döll, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Audre Lorde, Alexander Shulgin, Leonora Carrington, Frantz Fanon, Alok Vaid-Menon, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan, Arca, Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Jané E Mackenzie, Paulo Freire, Paul Preciado, Stuart Hall, Isabel Waidner, and Ursula le Guin.
2. What is the Network of Neuroqueering Humans?
An informal collective of individual creative practitioners whose work and interests align through their Neuroqueering intent. It will be cocreated through ongoing dialogues with those of you who live Neuroqueering with intentionality and purpose – those of you who yearn for a more-human yet less-human future, and have ideas or feelings about how we might make that journey together.
The Network of Neuroqueering Humans and the Grant for Neuroqueering Humans was instigated by Laurie Green, neurodivergent and queer [neuroqueer] artist, the author of this Substack. They refuse gender classification.
Laurie’s Links:
Instagram
Substack - Eustasian Resonances
Twitter
Website
Youtube
Twitch
3. Why does this grant exist?
I believe in
Collective freedom and the dissolution of dominating hierarchies of power.
The material reality of the universe and our unique power to affect it as part of it.
Play as method.
The dissolution of imposed dualities and binaries and the smearing of hard borders into permeable negotiated boundaries.
Prefigurative art that creates the world that we imagine, desire, and yearn for.
Fluidity and fluctuation of form and process.
Embodiment as enlightenment.
Human as improvised performance.I believe that Neuroqueering is a liberatory practice in alignment with these beliefs. I believe that Neuroqueering is a way to break through the rigidity imposed upon the human body by ossifying yet intensifying social hierarchies, a method of freedom, and a process of continuous revolution.
This has been my own experience. By Neuroqueering with intentionality, I have experienced a drastic shift in my self-conceptualisation for the better; escaping the mental trap of capitalist realism into a space that envisions magic, pleasure, and collective power.
This escape was not a retreat into self and egoism; from social death I have been reborn, becoming [always becoming] a node in a network of nepantlera working simultaneously and asynchronously through time and space, inhabiting place and propagating lineages of care, love, and compassion. I am able to offer my devotional service to others in a way that felt impossible just a few years ago.
- Laurie Green
4. How to apply
Send an email to neuroqueeringhumans@gmail.com with a written or audio recording of a brief statement describing how your creative practice relates to the concept of Neuroqueering, and explaining how the grant will support your work.
Your email must include either:
Written text of between 200 and 500 words, OR;
A voice note of between 2 and 4 minutes.
Please also include:
Online links: social Media handles, website, etc
1 page CV detailing creative practice
A list/attached document of any access requirements (see Access Docs for Artists for more information)
The deadline for applications is 23:59 GMT on March 1st, 2023.
Applications received after this date will not be considered.
5. FAQ
What will happen if my application is successful?
You will become a member of a network of Neuroqueering Humans.
You will receive £1000 by March 20th.
What does the grant entail? (What will I need to do?)
You will have two online studio-visits (Zoom conversations) with Laurie during the grant period.
By 30th April you will be required to submit the following:
A short written or spoken statement that describes how the Neuroqueering grant helped you in your creative Neuroqueering practice.
An image, or video that represents the Neuroqueering practice you have engaged with since the Grant was awarded, to be used for promotional purposes.
What will the studio visits consist of?
These will be conversations, or dialogues, held over Zoom near the start and near the end of the Grant period. They will be a chance for me to learn about your practice and you mine. We will have the chance to show and tell, ask questions, seek answers, share skills or resources, and talk strategy. We will decide the dates for these conversations together.
What is the grant period?
This is a term I’m using to refer to the period of time between the award of the Grant (March 20th) and May 1st. You do not need to have spent the £1000 in this period of time. You are not required to produce financial statements of how the grant funds have been used.
Can I apply from anywhere in the world?
Yes. There is no geographical restriction to the grant. If you live outside of the UK, you will receive the equivalent of £1000 in your local currency according to the exchange rate on March 20th 2023.
Are there any eligibility criteria?
You must have some way of electronically receiving the grant money (bank account, Paypal, etc).
I have a question or some feedback, how can I get in touch?
Your questions and feedback are welcome at any stage.
Email Laurie directly at neuroqueeringhumans@gmail.com, DM me on instagram @neuroqueeringhumans, leave a comment on Substack, or reply to this email.