Loe is a queer neurodiverse maker and shaker.
We talk brief about a project their working on. A Queer Land Marking Project with Georgia Rowan.
With segways into talking cross art form, and the current state of arts funding and how cross art in both of projects is not just about diversifying our practices but how it helps push our messages out into the world, and of course to innovate in hopes of reaching the peak of our creative ambitions. This includes seeing more callouts which mention working with Tech/VR just to name one example.
Neurodiversity, impulsiveness, and how that can sometimes make this tricky as well as be spur of moment creative inspiration. Does it help or hinder?
We talk about the upcoming project we will be working onto together briefly with a collaborator of mine Alexandra Tsiapi. Loe spoke about the love of talking about colour and texture of material as they get into their set/costume designer zone.
This upcoming project of ours is called Individuals & Intamacies which about the stereotypes that intimacy has been but under and how its being commercialised and sexualised and of which is only a small part of building true intimacy with other people and not necessary just our sexual/romantic partners.
Loe talks about their dyspraxia and ADHD diagnosis when at college and how that informed their practice and life from that point on.
That conversation leads as to talk about school teacher experiences and how teachers would humiliate us. Isolating us in the classroom, wondering if we were actually stupid like how they made us feel, rather than try kind out why kids like us our struggling. However we ended that topic on a cute teacher story from Loe about inclusivity in the classroom. Things are slowly but surely improving in some ways at schools, and but still a long way to go.
We talk about real moments like talking about my dad returning from an intensive hospitalisation period.
Asking Loe how they do safe care which included therapy, taking things slower, going back to cycling, going for walks, outdoor movement practice in nature.
Finishing on Interesting full circle moment near the end, and a final good all waffle about various other bits and pieces!
