Atypical #2 – 2025
Atypical presents the results of a ten-day residency of individual and collective experimentation between artists from France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy and Germany, exploring neurodiversity through transmedia creation.
Emoflowerey
Reframe
Tomsie Oswald
Care Labour Trash. Care labour trash is the emission that comes from emotional work – the effort marginalized people give to privileged people to preserve their existence. It’s a burden that privileged people don’t want to see, smell, acknowledge, deal with, or take responsibility for. So marginalized people must again carry, sort, and bring out this trash into their own trash-collecting systems/communities.
Anatomia dell’appartenenza
Nicole David & Denis Abazi
S’aventreonner. The feeling of surrendering to intuition and letting the gut lead, as one ventures into the richness and complexity of things – when they become ineffable and/or uncategorizable.
Dispersillusion. The first approach we apply to new projects or situations – a scattered, vibrant, not-yet-connected set of ideas. It’s the illusion that everything is dispersed, but in reality, it is not.
Obstranger
Lost, this time together
Roberto Bellonzi
Giongiolamento. The continuous search for thinking like a child — to keep the pleasure of discovering things while avoiding the heaviness of growing old (awareness of the inevitable). It’s a balance between consciousness and ingenuity.
Calapertura
Ruggero Anastasio
Immersing oneself, swimming deeper and coming into contact with something alive and enriching under the surface. Holding your breath, “closing” to then “open up” and receive something in the deep.
Underskinness
In Tension
Sarah Fernandez
The pursuit of experiences that place you in front of paradoxical truths, where seemingly contradictory ideas and emotions are both true and free at the same time. Not to be confused with cognitive dissonance — ambivaillance is a chosen and benevolent attitude to life.
Grieving what once was
Leticia Martín de la Escalera Ortega
Wildempove. A world where, on certain nights, a human becomes an animal or any living being – not by choice, but to contemplate the world differently, as if for the first time. Fascination, awe, and appreciation are restored. Humans can only access this if they feel at ease and in harmony with the world.
SprinklesRemain
Toni Nolde
Party-Pain-Paukenschlag. Moments in which the pain beneath the party you’re showcasing suddenly surfaces through an unforeseeable event.world.
Streamssciousness
Self Hate
Pie Formosa
Anti-Salas. A love for innocence – anti-original sin.
A hometown without charge.
A pure, innocent place.
Good-enough parenting. Soothe.
The Black Box
Evgeniya Dineva
Sleamnic. A blend of «sleep/dream» and «fear/panic». It describes the feeling at 5 a.m. when the sky starts paling, your body is shutting down, but your mind races toward something bad that might happen to your loved ones — and you can’t do anything to save them.
Diskolôsolucia
Valentin Kundurdzhieu
A state of mind where you can’t decide whether to leave the things you love to work more (to support your family financially), or to keep doing what you love even if it means financial hardship.
Flying away from intrusive thoughts
Nayaraq
Freeunsitenew. To free yourself from unwanted intrusive or parasitic thoughts to make space for new ones.
About Being Late
Monika Rosenbaum
Nevronolakostarnnist. The emotional swinging between acceptance and struggle, when experiencing rapid shifts in emotional state – tied to knowing these changes are neurologically rooted.
What about freedom
Léa Krief
Feelife. A word to describe the ability to feel life in your body, soul, and heart. When you feelife, it means you possess the superpower of sensitivity.
Reclaiming Light
Justine Helou
Alienation Nation. Connecting through disconnection; feeling unity through shared confusion. It’s existentialism and silliness coexisting.
Complifly
Mihaela Mladenova
To escape from complicated thoughts and give yourself the opportunity to fly.
Incarne
Marine Sorato
Questinaction. The action of cultivating the humble posture of innate and authentic curiosity towards life and oneself.
Gearit - Emptiful
Océane Redhon, Pie Formosa & Matthieu Regout
Gearit. The name of a privilege: when the wild, sensible gears of your mind allow you to be a free spirit.
Emptiful. Carrying or embodying emptiness, yet charged with meaning, presence, or potential.
Semperdator
Neli Tzompova
Always a giver – a person who puts a lot of effort and thought into meaningful and meaningless things, often resulting in their own exhaustion.
Minerginoscrezia
Darina Estova
The feeling when you wake up from a peaceful nap at the beach and your sight is suddenly infused with blue pigments for a couple of seconds.
