SELF as OTHER, or: speaking aut*
As part of the Language Based Artistic Research SIG of the SAR, Anna Nygren (AnnaN/annan) and I (barb/brab) started an exchange of thoughts about the meaning of „aut“ – as in aut/istic and aut/oimmune – that became the initial point for a collaborative project. We want to investigate what it means to live as auts, to write about it in regard to everyday life, in regard to the medical discourses about autism and aut/oimmunity, and in regard to the view of the „others“, the not-auts.
* Speaking out and at the same time speaking as auts, but also speaking in a language called „aut“