ATYPICAL

Who are we looking for?

Are you neuroatypical? Do you work with neurodiverse audiences? Are you simply interested to learn about this theme? Are you an educator, social worker, youth worker? 

Are you an artist, performer, visual artist, film director, screenwriter, sound designer, musician, digital content creator, writer or visionary? Wishing to create personal and collective artworks about contemporary identities in Europe? Would you like to experience a co-living experiential art laboratory with fresh fellow creatives? Are you passionate about storytelling, advocacy and transmission? Atypical is for you then!

What we offer

Atypical explores an innovative learning method leading to the creation of an online and an offline collective exhibition.

It is a training. You will explore the use of digital tools and collective art to better self-express and learn about creative advocacy. You will dive into neurodiversity, learn from yourself, others and our trainer team. At the end of the training, we want you to master a set of knowledge and tools related to mental health, identity as well as script writing, audio editing and voice over, visual editing and integration, as well as to use diverse apps and social media tools, for getting your artistic message across. Then you’ll help the audience you work with to do the same!

It is an art residency. You’ll be hosted in a creative rural barn to research, question, develop and confront your art vision and practices with trainers and participants. The aim will be to gradually merge your personal narrative and experience into a collective physical and digital exhibition.

At the end of each residency-training a physical and digital exhibition will connect your artworks with the local rural community. By going digital we also look further to reach out your personal and professional networks across countries to raise awareness about neurodiversity and inclusion.

Last but not least, Atypical is an inclusive experience for social connection and intercultural european dialogue taking place in Cornac, a picturesque French village surrounded by eco responsible farmers and inspiring artists and artisans from the local rural community. As art is no longer meaningful without sustainability, we opt for sustainable food and reasonable energy consumption. Let’s also reflect together about local actions!

Learning methods

Our methodology is based on experiential learning (learn by doing it!), interdisciplinary exchange (widen your panel of knowledge!) outdoor education and non-formal education principles (explore the power of collective intelligence!)

Participants will learn through testing designed methods and reflecting upon the experience. Using a participatory approach, we encourage the exchange of experience between the participants and with the local community, fostering peer learning.

We are looking for diverse participants profiles to foster co-learning and enrich everyone's projects with the expertise and perspective of others, to help you develop a mesmerising multimedia story!

Program

Mornings will be dedicated to training. 

Afternoons will be time to exchange about personal and collective project evolution in peer groups, sometimes in plenary ; to consult individually with Atypical trainers and/or to join technical workshops to enrich your practice. 

Evenings will be open for participants willing to propose activities to each other.

Day 1 | Who is who?

Day 2 | Atypical team building

Day 3 | Diverse abilities, diverse opportunities

Day 4 | Atypical heartbeat

Day 5 | Atypical storytelling

Day 6 | Atypical collective creation

Day 7 | FREE DAY 

Day 8 | Atypical dream

Day 9 | Atypical event

Day 10 | Evaluation  &  learning outcomes

Trainers' team

Anne Merlin is a creativity explorer. Whilst studying visual arts and interaction design in France, she discovered the magic of mixing media through creative coding and interactive books. Excited about the whole thing, she co-founded Nomadways (www.nomadways.org) in 2014, where she started crafting and animating workshops mixing performing and visual arts, to explore new ways to co-create and learn in Europe and beyond. In the meantime, she lived in Greece, Brazil, Seychelles, Portugal and many more countries, experimenting with ever more creative ways to interact and discover one another in multilingual or non verbal settings. Living near Cornac, where Atypical will take place, since 2017, Anne Merlin is also actively involved at a local scale in alternative schools projects involving children with mental health issues or/and other specific needs, and collaborative ecological initiatives.

Maxime Lindon is a screenwriter, film director and video producer experienced in animating youth workshops. His approach to storytelling is based on a double background and knowledge: cinema  &  communication. In the last 10 years he wrote TV screenplays, directed one short fiction awarded in festivals and one feature documentary. He founded Pitch Films, a company creating corporate video contents and storytelling workshops. Raised in Milano (Italy), he spent 15 years in Paris before moving to Marseille. As a storytelling trainer, he perceives his job as listening to participants' storytelling desires, helping them to turn their emotions into expressive, high impact and well driven plot multimedia artworks. His mantra in creation: vision is nothing without a heartbeat!

More info on www.tiliade.com