Brainwave #4 Worlding beyond Wording

What happens when we step beyond words—when expression spills out of the boundaries of the verbal and textual? This first part of a two-part programme invites visitors to explore how neurodiverse ways of sensing, connecting, and communicating can open new artistic and relational possibilities. Together with artists Vera Lelie and Renske Tiermesma, participants are invited to engage with fabric as a medium of communication and relation, discovering how artistic processes can shape new understandings of expression and knowing.

As one form among many, verbal language both connects and confines us. It builds the spaces we inhabit together, yet it also defines who is heard and how. This programme turns attention toward what seeps through those boundaries: the silences, gestures, textures, and sensory exchanges that often escape linguistic form. By foregrounding these modes of communication, we challenge normative assumptions about understanding and invite alternative ways of relating, perceiving, and making meaning to emerge, both within and beyond the university context. Join us to explore these other ways of connecting, creating, and communicating.

Practical information

This programme will take place on 27 November at VOX-POP (Binnengasthuisstraat 9, BG3, ground floor). It will start at 16:30 and finish at 18:30. Participation is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to register in advance.
For whom: All body-minds and neuro-types are warmly invited to join.

Guest speakers