this is a tangible space for multimedia, grant johnson
description This is a Tangible Space is an autistic multimedia project. It platforms discourse on autism, neurodivergence, disability, and systemic/interpersonal ableism depicted through personal, lived experience. The audiovisual language comes from my synesthetic and often overwhelming relationship with my senses, calmed through deliberate grounding. Motion and sensation are colored with sound and visuals, and the things I hear/see have synesthetic relationships of their own. By sharing these thoughts as they are abstractly presented to me in my own bodymind, I’m conveying the experiences which a lack of understanding of autism through existing discourse & rhetoric fail to meaningfully or accurately identify. In live settings the shows may exist as traditional live performances or standalone installations depending on the needs of the venue as well as my own level of overstimulation.