Happy Places is an interactive audio-visual artwork, an affirmatory exploration of the neuro-divergent sensory experience. Prompted to explore their own particular audio-visual sensory perceptions and profiles – which are core to how and why they make art and music and also to how their work manifests - AinsleyPhillips have worked co-creatively alongside fellow Orkney-based ND creatives to co-create this new work.
Over the space of a year, they worked together with seven co-creators, using computer-based audio-visual jamming tools and the diverse audio-visual spaces created reflect the individual voices and sensory experiences of each creator.
The final piece offers the exhibition visitor the opportunity to select, load and interact with each of the nine Happy Place spaces and the ability to jam with the audio-visual material to create their own version of each Happy Place. In this way, the work seeks to invite engagement and exploration of the importance and variety of neuro-divergent sensory experience, through an engaging, interactive and fun experience.
Throughout the exhibition, each week there will be a NOISY SATURDAY. Please come along and chat/jam/create with the artists.
About AinsleyPhillips Projects
AinsleyPhillips Projects was formed by artist Emma Ainsley and artist-musician John Phillips in 2018 as part of their long-standing collaborative practice, to deliver participatory projects into care and community settings, bringing art and music together to create dynamic improvisatory spaces of connection and communication. Emma and John are both autistic creatives.