STIM CINEMA (2024) embraces the stim as a form of care. In considering the tendency towards repetitive gestures, which are deeply comforting to neurodivergent folks, I’ve come to adore linocut printing as an expressive way to stim. I find the repetitive printing process akin to a self-soothing form of care, given how it foregrounds sensorial elements—specifically those pertaining to visuality and tactility. When I teach at the Art Gallery of Ontario, my courses often incorporate linocut as a bridge to mixed-media forms. Lino block printing is a practice that students often lose themselves in—be it in the designing, carving, or printing steps of the process. To read alongside the ethos of The Neurocultures Collective, we’ll spend lunchtime collaboratively carving and printing designs based on the installation while we find inspiration for our expressive stimming in the e|gallery.

Free and open to all.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Space is limited, register with Eventbrite.

The e|gallery has been transformed into a Co-Creation Studio for the STIM CINEMA exhibition. It is located on the ground floor of the CCT Building and is accessible to people who use mobility devices, with doorways measuring over 32” wide. All entrances at ground floor level are equipped with power-assisted doors. The e|gallery is accessible via the east entrance (adjacent to parking lot 9) at ground level, or by elevator from the main floor entrance and at parking garage levels 1, 3, and 5. Accessible multi-user gendered washrooms are located at ground level, and accessible multi-user all-gender washrooms are located on the third floor of the CCT Building.

Andi Gilker is a neurodivergent artist and academic working at the intersection of critical disability studies, sound studies, and visual media. Andi has a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montréal, after which she completed a summer residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and lived and worked as an expressive portrait painter for many years. Currently, Andi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, where her doctoral thesis focuses on the temporalities of dysfluency. Andi’s creative work spans categories. At the present moment, she is working on an experimental documentary on 16 mm about the devastating effects/affects of posthumous taxation on the bereaved.