Adam Wolfond, a non-speaking visual artist and poet, creates an art installation that replicates the intense sensory experiences of autism. The installation, currently showing at Koffler Arts in Toronto, uses video, collage, and fabric to convey Wolfond's unique perception of the world.
The installation What if My Body is a Beacon for the World?, by autistic artist Adam Wolfond, seeks to replicate the intense patterns, hypnotic pacing and sensory overload that he experiences. It is currently showing at Koffler Arts in the Youngplace complex on Toronto’s Shaw Street.Toronto artist Adam Wolfond sits in a studio cheerfully decorated with large sticks he has wrapped in colourful fibres.
The Koffler installation begins with a video that portrays Wolfond, or at least his busy hand, twirling a small stick as he stands at the water’s edge. This activity – he calls it twallowing – helps with navigation and seeing, and is a constant with him. “Using typing makes a way of talking that is not my language, so making the video assemble the Man of Autism’s ways, languaging that world that wells in my body.”
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