What is the Neurodivergent Aesthetic and is there an appetite for this hidden genre?

This is a post about the work I am involved in at DYSPLA, a London based Arts Organisation specialising in developing and producing the Neurodivergent Aesthetic.

DYSPLA is destined to explore and investigate the Neurodivergent Aesthetic (ND-A) until the end of time. Since 2010 DYSPLA has professed there is a hidden genre and this post is an attempt to spread their message far and wide.

We have all been told that Neurodivergent people think differently, but do Neurodivergent artists and filmmakers create differently too?

Dyslexic and Neurodivergent Storymakers have a strong heritage in narrative and non-linear art history. For example, British filmmakers such as Steve McQueen, Ridley Scott, David Lean, Roger Graef, Charlie Chaplin, Guy Ritchie, Joe Wright, and international filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, Stan Brakhage, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Michael Bay, Nicolas Winding Refn, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Jim Jarmusch and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, are some of the most prolific Storymakers identifying as Neurodivergent. DYSPLA believes it is their Neurodivergence that makes their films genius.

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Lennie Varvarides
The Museum of the Neurodivergent Aesthetic — MONDA

London-based dyslexic creative working in development. Founder of DYSPLA, founding editor @ The Museum of the Neurodivergent-Aesthetic.