ADAM WOLFOND
EDUCATION
Present
A mix of anyone who will take me Toronto Metropolitan University. Disability Studies courses. George Brown College TPE program to get the college credits they want me to get for disability studies.
2016- Present (Select)
Collaborator and co-director, dis assembly (formerly The A Collective).
Artist in collaboration with Dr. Erin Manning (Relational Art and Philosophy, Concordia University);
Professor Liz Brockest (Disability Studies, George Brown College);
Chris Martin, (Unrestricted Interest - poetry); Ellen Bleiwas (artist);
Jessamyn Polson (M.A. Education and Indigenous Studies);
Eva Kolzce, (Filmmaker);
Estée Klar (PhD Candidate, Neurodiversity and Relation, artist/curator).
SELECT FILM PROJECTS/PODCASTS
2022. Crip Times with Adam Wolfond and Estee Klar.
2021. Adam Wolfond and Imane Boukalia interview poet Chris Martin on Inter-Views
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2018 - Present
Inter⸳Views. Podcast located on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/awolfond
2016 - 2017
The Walking Man Series. A series of digital shorts made in collaboration with Adam Wolfond exploring autism and movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NVxHbeYvg
2016
Autism to Inclusion. Collaboration with Estée Klar. Digital Short for Project Revision, 5 minutes. University of Guelph/Brandon University https://vimeo.com/195321753
2016
The Aspects of Talking and How I’m Like Moses. Documentary Project, 15 minutes. Shown at the ReelAbilities Film Festival in May 2017. This film is circulated annually through the School System and was shown at The ReelAbilities Film Festival.
SELECT LECTURES, CONFERENCES + PUBLICATIONS
2022. The Wanting Ways. Milkweed Publishing (November release).
2022 Co-Instructor, Neurodiversity and Blackness with Dr. Erin Manning. Master’s Course, Concordia University.
NPR: For neurodivergent, non-speaking poets, collaboration is the basis of language, April 29.
2021 Modern Language Association Neurodiversity roundtable with Adam Wolfond, Julie Miele Rodas, Remi Yergau, Chris Martin, Estée Klar, Hannah Emerson.
2021. Klar, E. and Adam Wolfond. Neurodiversity in Relation. Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry. Emily Nussbaum, Jessica Nina, Eds. Focus Series, Routledge (Forthcoming).
2021. The Brooklyn Rail. Radical Poetry Reading with Chris Martin.
2021. Featured Reading With Adam Wolfond. The Neurolyrical Cafe.
2020. Babble About Autism Talks Too Much. Ought: Journal of Autistic Culture. Vol. 2. Issue. 1
2020. How. Ought: Journal of Autistic Culture. Vol 2. Issue 1.
2020 - Neurodiversity in Relation: an artistic intraethnography. In collaboration with Estee Klar and nominated for the York University dissertation award.
2019
Tall Ideas. Selected poem for publication. Poem a Day. The Academy of American Poets. Poets.org.
In Way of Music Water Asnwers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism. Unrestricted Editions.
There is Too Music In My Ears. Unrestricted Editions.
Diversity in Diversity. Infexions. SenseLab. Concordia University.
Techniques for Neurodiversity, SenseLab, Concordia University with Estée Klar and Dr. Erin Manning.
Neurodiversity in Relation: an artistic intraethnography. PhD Dissertation Collaborator with Estée Klar (in progress).
Neurodiversity and Intraethnography. Seneca College. Class Lecture with Dr. Nancy Le Monica.
2018
Relationshapes: An artistic project that intra-acts collaboration with autistic experience. Diversity in Diversity. Inflexions. Concordia University http://inflexions.org/diversityindiversity/relationshapes.html
2017
- ReelAbilities Film Festival. Artist Talk: The Aspects of Talking and How I’m Like Moses.
- Co-Presented with E. Klar. Collaborating with Autistic Experience: Enacting Ways of Support for Inclusion. Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities, Ryerson University.
- Co-Presented with E. Klar. Collaborating With Autistic Experience: Enacting Support for Inclusion. For Dr. Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Critical Disability Studies Overview, York University, Toronto.
- Co-Presented with E. Klar. Writing/Drawing Our Rhythm. For Dr. Nancy Le Monica. Creative Writing, Seneca College, King City.
2016
- Keynote. Exploring shared communication and meaning. Autism Rocks Symposium, Newmarket Autism Association.
- Autism to Inclusion. For Dr. Anne McGuire. Disability and The Child. Department of Equity Studies, University of Toronto.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS + RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist/Poet in Residence, Confluence with Sam Gould, Minneapolis see: thisbeyondrepair.com
2022 Pandemic Paces, Artscape Hallway Galleries, Toronto.
2021 Open Studio Exhibition, Pandemic Paces, dis assembly, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.
2019 S/Pace: Neurodiversity in Relation. Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto. Exhibition with Estee Klar.
2017
- Open Studio Exhibition: The Walking Machine Series. The A School Collective.
- Collaborator. Relationshapes: Enacting Intraethnography for Inclusive Autism Pedagogy. Exhibition for Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar, York University.
- Artist-In-Residence, ArtScape, Gibraltar Point.
2016
- Artist-In-Residence/Researcher: SenseLab. Process Art and Philosophy, Concordia University.
- Autism to Inclusion. For Professors Liz Brockest and Fran Odette. George Brown College, Toronto.
2015 - 2016
Autism and Support. The A School, Toronto.
VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
2016 + 2017
Leader-In-Training. Camp Robinhood
2016
Volunteer. Ve’ahavta.
AWARDS
2016
The Lev Award. Ve’ahavta.DF