(Questionnaire): “I’m not testing your responses, it’s only because I’m not a qualified neurologist and it hasn’t been passed by an ethics board” - and the other barriers between us… I made a game where I secretly test people’s global abstract reasoning. Although it’s not so secret because I have no filter and I tell everyone that’s what I’m doing.”
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10 large sheets of paper are hung at roughly heigh height.
Each is approximately a metre long by half a metre high.
The paper is held on their top edges by pastel coloured clips with string that connects them to the railing above.
They float in front of the black curtain.
The words on the papers are hand written in sharpie pen in confident lines. Some words are emboldened, others softer.
The spacing on each is meticulously placed.
Each paper references a different page of a Questionnaire workshop booklet.
A summary of each panel running left to right:
● ‘The Sublime Stim’ page features information about the context of the questionnaire. This includes information about the purpose and reference of the questionnaire.
● ‘Prologue’ pages speak to reframing and reclaiming autistic tests.
● ‘Sensory Mapping’ invites the reader to answer felt-sense questions around sound, visual and touch prompts.
● ‘Proprioception’ and ‘Echolalia’ feature on this page. Proprioception is exemplified through the act of draping your body. Echolalia is the repetition of sounds.
● ‘Touch’ titles this page, asking questions around what types of movement the reader might like. What noises too.
● ‘Scent’ continues asking questions of the reader. This time about food or non-food smells, including experiences of foods texture and visual.
● ‘Sense memory’ speaks to the notion of senses sparking memories. Further questions about sensory seeking.
● ‘Movement, visual’ asks of object to person relationship both visually and physically.
● ‘Any sense’ concludes the questionnaire by asking specifics of stimming - do you stim?
