DYSPLA Festival

22/04/2026

ARTIST TALK TOMORROW @ Stephen Lawrence Gallery -

Artist/Lecturer: Yu-Lun Sung with Kazimir Bielecki

Title: Reflection on “I am afraid I disagree (…), because —” (2021)

Type: Screening/Talk
Date: Thursday 23rd April
Time: (11:30-13:30)

Over five years, an idea became a published academic article. Some parts of the work have kept their original shape, while others transformed as our thoughts matured. This desktop documentary explores the tension between past and present. It serves as a reflection on the project The Screen is the Brain, as the artist questions his own identity—navigating the space between neurodivergent and neurotypical experiences.

22/04/2026

DYSPLA - artist in residence at Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

21/04/2026

§1NDA - a neurodivergent aesthetic
Artist Residency @ the Stephen Lawrence Gallery

“Spatial ability is not a simple matter. It is not just a picture-like memory for objects, places, and people. This kind of memory might be helpful in carrying out spatial tasks, but it is not at the core of what is meant by spatial ability. Spatial mechanical thinking involves the capacity to put the world together inside one’s head such that all things relate to all others in precisely understood ways. The distance and directional positioning between a whole host of things is so well understood that all become part of an interconnected system.” (Dyslexic Advantage, 2019)

Second Private View: Saturday 25 April, 2:00-5:00 PM if you are free to attend?

DYSPLA, winner of the Saatchi Gallery Digital Artist of the Future Prize 2025, announces their major Artist Residency exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, in Greenwich, London from April–May 2026. §1NDA - a neurodivergent aesthetic unpack, challenge and visualise what is meant by the new term, the neurodivergent aesthetic.

18/04/2026

Alison Lam
Workshop / Talk
Thursday 16 April, 11:30–12:30

We are grateful to for the opportunity to explore the concept of a neurodivergent with colleagues, peers, and new friends.

shared some much about language communication and miscommunication.

The conversation co-existed with origami making. While our hands were busy our ability to follow the flow our thoughts took over.

Language is textual, it has texture. That’s why we can feel it. To mask ourselves is to hide our thoughts and hide our language.

To hide is to sit in the unsaid.

To censor that which can be used to create.

generously shared her practice, her language and personal story. Thank you so much.

16/04/2026

21/03/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/dyspla/p/1nda-a-neurodivergent-aesthetic?r=fm285&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

26/02/2026

CALL FOR NEURODIVERGENT ARTISTS

DYSPLA invites UK based neurodivergent artists, (visual, performance, digital, text) to participate in the neurodivergent aesthetic discussion, by sharing one example of their artwork.

We welcome one digital file per artist for inclusion in DYSPLA’s next art exhibition entitled, 'a neurodivergent aesthetic' at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

Upload one digital file of your artwork, labeled with your full name and saved vertical/portrait with a minimum of 5906 x 8858 pixels to avoid pixelation. DYSPLA will select and print images vertically on 1000mm x 1500mm, 300gsm billboard paper.

Upload to the 'Neurodivergent Aesthetic Archive'
Please upload your file directly to this secure dropbox link before Friday 6th March 2026:

08/01/2026

DYSPLA was awarded the Digital Artist of the Future Award 2025 by The Saatchi Gallery for the artwork DYSPLA_disabled. This artwork was created in collaboration with 11 artists from Enfield who identify as disabled during the residency.

Once nominated DYSPLA conducted interviews with these Artists in front of the award winning artwork displayed at The Saatchi Gallery, London, England from 25th October 2025 to 11th January 2026.

Visual: Artist Chris Stewart talking in front of award winning artwork DYSPLA_disabled in which he was a collaborator. Chris talked within the Digital Artist of the Future exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, a high and white walled gallery with large video monitors.

28/11/2025

Following on from DYSPLA’s award winning installation at the Saatchi Gallery, we will be presenting our commission for Cultural Ingelsa, Brazil - SURPLUS: THE RAT, THE TAMPON, THE LAUGHING GAS at D-Fuse’s 9EP3 — Nine Earths Summit @ P3.

At 3pm, Friday the 28th of November, we will also be participating in a panel discussion: How can neurodivergent creativity reshape the way we communicate the climate crisis?

Artists D-Fuse and DYSPLA artist, Kazimir Bielecki, join climate communicator George Marshall - along with Nikki Locke who will be chairing the discussion - to explore how diverse ways of thinking and creating can open new emotional and imaginative responses to the climate emergency — moving beyond facts toward connection and change.

Dates: 28–29 November 2025

⏰Slots: 12:00-17:00 and 19:00-23:00

📍Ambika P3 35 Marleybone Road London NW1 5LS

Panel Discussion: 15:00

In partnership with the University of Westminster, the Summit brings together artists, scientists, and climate activists for a dynamic programme of immersive installations, audio-visual performances, workshops, and talks, offering an opportunity to reflect on environmental storytelling and neurodiversity.

-Fuse

Other Artists



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Visual: shards of reds and browns making up a photogrammetric scan of a dead rat.

Voice over - The Tampon’, played by Daisy-May Parsons

26/11/2025

Following on from DYSPLA’s award winning installation at the Saatchi Gallery, we will be presenting our commission for Cultural Ingelsa, Brazil - SURPLUS: THE RAT, THE TAMPON, THE LAUGHING GAS at D-Fuse’s 9EP3 — Nine Earths Summit @ P3.

We will also be participating in a panel discussion: How can neurodivergent creativity reshape the way we communicate the climate crisis?

Artists D-Fuse and DYSPLA artist, Kazimir Bielecki, join climate communicator George Marshall - along with Nikki Locke who will be chairing the discussion - to explore how diverse ways of thinking and creating can open new emotional and imaginative responses to the climate emergency — moving beyond facts toward connection and change.

Dates: 28–29 November 2025

⏰Slots: 12:00-17:00 and 19:00-23:00

📍Ambika P3 35 Marleybone Road London NW1 5LS

Panel Discussion: 15:00

In partnership with the University of Westminster, the Summit brings together artists, scientists, and climate activists for a dynamic programme of immersive installations, audio-visual performances, workshops, and talks, offering an opportunity to reflect on environmental storytelling and neurodiversity.

-Fuse

Other Artists



collective


evanraskob_art





Visual: shards of reds and browns making up a photogrammetric scan of a dead rat.

Voice over - The Rat’, played by Alex Forman