Abstract/Statement
Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication. Recently they created a series of work called ‘Porosity’ which looked at embodied sensory relationships to the Humber Estuary, with a focus on stimming and ecological perception.
Sam, through their work with professionals aims to create a shift in perception away from negativity around stimming and neurodivergence. For instance, working with trainee medical students to encourage creative activities that support stimming.
Yorkshire Sculpture Network 2022
Drawing as Stimming, Necessity supported research, 2021-23
British Art Network Emerging Curator 21/22
Nominated recipient of Henry Moore Foundation Award 2022
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Recommended Citation
Metz, Sam
(2024)
"Stimming as a Form of Autistic Aesthetic Experience, Neuroqueering Landscape,"
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture: Vol. 5:
Iss.
2, Article 14.
DOI: 10.9707/2833-1508.1165
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ought/vol5/iss2/14