Stitching the Future with Clues is a neurodivergent-futurist manifesto, commissioned by the Ford Foundation Gallery for the exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA. Existing as a single-channel film and as an immersive live performance, it asks viewers to consider feedback systems as theoretical frameworks, using animated diagrams, audio/video feedback processes, and expanded cinema techniques (crossing video beams through a glass sphere of water, and further distorting their projections with additional spheres of water, kiln-formed glass, and lenses). The piece also reveals, through a cybernetic lens, how neurodivergence can be viewed as a system of sense-making; one differently attuned to temporal, psychic, and environmental embodied existence, and holding key insights for urgently needed world-building.
Stitching the Future with Clues, 2021
Stitching the Future with Clues
Video, water, scientific glass, kiln-formed glass, found objects, electronics, custom steel mounts. Dimensions variable.
Sound: Thomas Dimuzio, video feedback: Kit Young. (Single-channel runtime: 14:30; Excerpt: 03:00)
Exhibitions
- 2025
Neurovisions Film Festival, Landmark College, Putney, VT Curator: Eric Stewart - 2024
EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL. Curator: Aileen Ye. TERRA INCOGNITA
Cushing Memorial Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Curator: Meredith Tromble. Alice in the Archives: The Changing Shape of Knowledge
Open Air Media Festival, Iowa City, IA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Michigan, Curator: Kornelia Boczkowska - 2023
LIVE–The Exploratorium: 40 Years of Cinema Programming, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Sam Sharkland (w/Kit Young, Amma Ateria) - 2022
Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, Curators: Ann M. Fox, Jessica Cooley, Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning
Berkeley Art Museum | Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, Curators: Kathy Geritz, Jeffrey Skoller, Alternative Visions
Mind & Life Institute, Summer Research Institute, streaming online
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, Stitching the Future with Clues - 2021
Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, Curators: Ann Fox, Jessica Cooley, Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA (commission)
Panels, Conferences, Presentations
- 2026
University of Pennsylvania, visiting artist
Bryn Mawr College, visiting artist - 2025
San Jose State University, visiting artist - 2024
University of Michigan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 2022
RIXC Art Science Festival, virtual hybrid: Riga, Latvia and Liepaja, Karlsruhe, Oslo, Splintered Realities - 2022
The Mind & Life Institute, streaming online, Summer Research Institute: Othering, Belonging, and Becoming (plenary faculty; screening) - 2021
Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, Curators: Ann Fox, Jessica Cooley, Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA