Audiovisual Performance at the Conference Program "The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2025
The Autistic Turn includes an artist’s book and spreads itself into other forms and media. The multimedial project deals with affective computing and neurodiversity in intersectional waters. Autistic turn comes after the previous turns, such as the affective turn and other Western feminist turns, and aims to bring a fresh wave—the work centres on a fictional Uncanny Valley, where non-neurotypicals meet by the water. Through the uncanny valley, many concepts related to neurodiversity, feminisms, machine learning, and face and emotion recognition emerge and spread out.
The Autistic Turn has been shown in different formats and locations, such as Die Lage in Kassel (2018), Mz. Baltazar's Lab in Vienna (2019), in Kosminen in Helsinki (2019), as part of the publications Crip Magazine (2022) as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial and Href Zine, Bremen (2021), and as iterations and expanded versions at alpha nova & galerie futura (2023) and as part of the program "The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes" at Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice (2025).
"Affective turn was very fine but then it went too far by encouraging everyone to be expressive and by doing so the affective turn was condemned to peter out. Just like what happens to every turn one day. Now the time has come for a new turn, and it is the autistic one."
First launched at Mz Baltazar's Lab in Vienna, collaboration with Andara Shastika in a sound performance called Shy Performance led to a Mini CD album. It consists of readings of the texts from the book The Autistic Turn voiced by Andara Shastika and cut-up sounds partly composed partly mixed by Ipek Burçak.
Href Zine
The Autistic Turn was guest at Href Zine, Landscapes - Technoid Natures - Symbioses, published in Bremen in 2021, edited by Lotta Stöver and Nathalie Gebert.
The Autistic Turn was in Crip Magazine's 5th issue as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial, 2022.
First launched at Mz Baltazar's Lab in Vienna, collaboration with Andara Shastika in a sound performance called Shy Performance led to a Mini CD album. It consists of readings of the texts from the book The Autistic Turn voiced by Andara Shastika and cut-up sounds partly composed partly mixed by Ipek Burçak.
Href Zine
The Autistic Turn was guest at Href Zine, Landscapes - Technoid Natures - Symbioses, published in Bremen in 2021, edited by Lotta Stöver and Nathalie Gebert.
The Autistic Turn was in Crip Magazine's 5th issue as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial, 2022.
Href Zine
The Autistic Turn was guest at Href Zine, Landscapes - Technoid Natures - Symbioses, published in Bremen in 2021, edited by Lotta Stöver and Nathalie Gebert.
