Foyle, N. (2025) Good definitions: embodying autism through film poetry. In: Poetry Off the Page Around the Globe, June 13-14 2025, Vienna.
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Abstract
Naomi Foyle explores how her late autism assessment in 2020 provoked the revelation that performance has paradoxically enabled her to ‘unmask’: to bodily express her hidden autistic self. Discussing traits including gender fluidity, frank sexuality, hyperempathy, hypersensitivity, Foyle reflects on spoken word and audio visual work including the filmpoems 'Good Definition' (2008) and 'Ways of Seeing Trees' (2025), and the music video 'Boas and Blindfolds', produced with various collaborators.
A blog post published in the Online Gallery of Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe (University of Vienna and Literaturhaus Wien).
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