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12/03: Norwich Arts University Vice-Chancellor's Talks: Kai Syng Tan
12/03: Norwich Arts University Vice-Chancellor's Talks: Kai Syng Tan
Kai Syng Tan (she/they) is an award-winning artist-academic-author-agitator, and Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership at the University of Sou...
03/2026: WHAT’S YOUR LOVE LANGUAGE? Norwich, Cambridge, Teesside and Southampton – ARTFUL AGITATION
03/2026: WHAT’S YOUR LOVE LANGUAGE? Norwich, Cambridge, Teesside and Southampton – ARTFUL AGITATION
01/2026: PODCAST: Neurodiversity Matters: Kai Syng Tan and Georgia Thom on creative practice | QUAHRC
01/2026: PODCAST: Neurodiversity Matters: Kai Syng Tan and Georgia Thom on creative practice | QUAHRC
Qualitative researchers are increasingly turning to creative methods and methodologies to expand perspectives on health, healthcare, and divergent ways of being. In this episode Sohail speaks to Kai Syng Tan and Georgia Thom, both practising artists and researchers, about how neurodivergence and art work together to explore marginalised experiences of the world including trans life, neurodivergence, and their intersections, amid the resurgence of the far right.
2026: BOOK TOUR/KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE-LECTURES/TALKS: Royal College of Art, Norwich, Cambridge, Teeside,
2026: BOOK TOUR/KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE-LECTURES/TALKS: Royal College of Art, Norwich, Cambridge, Teeside,
06/09/2025-01/11/2025: Karama: Expressions of Resistance from Gaza
06/09/2025-01/11/2025: Karama: Expressions of Resistance from Gaza
23/01/2025: RCA Namita Gupta Wiggers and Kai Syng Tan 17:30
23/01/2025: RCA Namita Gupta Wiggers and Kai Syng Tan 17:30
03/12/2024: BOOK REVIEW by DR ADAM McDADE: Tentacles Making Fists: Re-Imagining and Neuro-Futurising Leadership (Council for Higher Education in Art & Design)
03/12/2024: BOOK REVIEW by DR ADAM McDADE: Tentacles Making Fists: Re-Imagining and Neuro-Futurising Leadership (Council for Higher Education in Art & Design)
29/11/2024 OP-ED: What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design? (Society for Research into Higher Education)
29/11/2024 OP-ED: What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design? (Society for Research into Higher Education)
by Kai Syng Tan A loveless storm and a love-filled symposium On 18 November I was ill. I recovered in time to travel to Helsinki for a symposium two days later, but winter storms shut down the airp…
04/09/2024: CLIP of UK BOOK PREMIERE: At John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
04/09/2024: CLIP of UK BOOK PREMIERE: At John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
22/11/2024: KEYNOTE LECTURE: University Arts Helsinki, Finland
22/11/2024: KEYNOTE LECTURE: University Arts Helsinki, Finland
The Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium will take place online on 15 November and onsite on 22 November at University of the Arts Helsinki.
23/11/2024: Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
23/11/2024: Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The book Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership: An A-Z towards Collective Liberation calls for a re-imagination of ‘leadership’ as a... trans-disciplinary (co-)creative diversified decolonised neuro-queered ...practice of change and future-making. At once inspirational,
BUY MY BOOK: Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership
BUY MY BOOK: Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership
This book is a re-claiming ‘leadership’ as a (co-)creative, beyond-colonial change-making practice with ‘neuro-futurism’
04/09/2024: BOOK FREE TICKETS HERE: Kai Syng Tan: In Conversation and Book Launch
04/09/2024: BOOK FREE TICKETS HERE: Kai Syng Tan: In Conversation and Book Launch
12/07/2024: Published: ‘Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership’ (Palgrave Macmillan)
12/07/2024: Published: ‘Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership’ (Palgrave Macmillan)
28 June 2024: Social Practices Lab project: May we become FAB PALS?
28 June 2024: Social Practices Lab project: May we become FAB PALS?
5 June 2024: Film screening + discussion, Winchester
5 June 2024: Film screening + discussion, Winchester
April 2024: Elected Trustee, UK Council for 64 art and design HE institutions (CHEAD)
April 2024: Elected Trustee, UK Council for 64 art and design HE institutions (CHEAD)
Feb 2024: Looking for Love
Feb 2024: Looking for Love
by Kai Syng Tan It’s nearly Valentine’s, and I’m looking for love. Don’t be silly, you scoff. Love doesn’t exist. Silly Lovers Silly, then, for one Paulo Freire (1921-1997) to claim educatio…
08 Dec 2023: Guggenheim feature: Making the Invisible Visible
08 Dec 2023: Guggenheim feature: Making the Invisible Visible
British Asian artist Kai Syng Tan overcomes cultural stigmas and invites viewers to explore the richness of neurodivergent perspectives through art.
DONATE: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA)
DONATE: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA)
UNRWA provides vital aid, education, and healthcare to over 5 million Palestine Refugees. Your donation helps deliver hope and life-saving support.
Jan 2024 DEADLINE: Work on your PhD with me through this SCHOLARSHIP
Jan 2024 DEADLINE: Work on your PhD with me through this SCHOLARSHIP
03 Dec 2023: Supporting mentee Ashok Mistry for his Keynote for Rushton Lecture 2023, DaDa, Museum of Liverpool
03 Dec 2023: Supporting mentee Ashok Mistry for his Keynote for Rushton Lecture 2023, DaDa, Museum of Liverpool
News story on NHK (Japan Public Broadcaster): on films on Myanmar, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023
News story on NHK (Japan Public Broadcaster): on films on Myanmar, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023
30 Nov 2023 DEADLINE: Artistic Director role at charity (where I'm trustee)
30 Nov 2023 DEADLINE: Artistic Director role at charity (where I'm trustee)
02-25 Nov 2023: Installation + Speed-Dating, Winchester Gallery – ARTFUL AGITATION
02-25 Nov 2023: Installation + Speed-Dating, Winchester Gallery – ARTFUL AGITATION
WORK WITH ME! Apply University of Southampton role f Arts & Cultural Leadership Coordinator
WORK WITH ME! Apply University of Southampton role f Arts & Cultural Leadership Coordinator
Oct 2023: Juror at New Asian Currents, Yamagata International Film Festival, Japan.
Oct 2023: Juror at New Asian Currents, Yamagata International Film Festival, Japan.
02 Oct 2023: Catch me on BBC World Service - The Conversation, Women living with ADHD
02 Oct 2023: Catch me on BBC World Service - The Conversation, Women living with ADHD
COME DO YOUR PhD WITH ME: I’m Associate Professor in Arts & Cultural Leadership, University of Southampton
COME DO YOUR PhD WITH ME: I’m Associate Professor in Arts & Cultural Leadership, University of Southampton
SUPPORT: Creative interventions into publishing via 3 books
SUPPORT: Creative interventions into publishing via 3 books
OP-ED: Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture
OP-ED: Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture
WEBSITE: Catalysing change through artful agitation
WEBSITE: Catalysing change through artful agitation
INTERVIEW: Neurodiversity and Creativity
INTERVIEW: Neurodiversity and Creativity
CULTURE CHANGE: £4.8m ceremonies Asia’s Paralympics
CULTURE CHANGE: £4.8m ceremonies Asia’s Paralympics
CELEBRATE: Black History Month & 5th Pan African Congress 75th anniversary
CELEBRATE: Black History Month & 5th Pan African Congress 75th anniversary
BODY ART: Not quite Orlan, just an Octopussy (Tattoo by Maia Sham, 8-hour sitting 10 July 2022)
BODY ART: Not quite Orlan, just an Octopussy (Tattoo by Maia Sham, 8-hour sitting 10 July 2022)
TRUSTEE: Hear Me Out (charity that co-creates music with detained asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK)
TRUSTEE: Hear Me Out (charity that co-creates music with detained asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK)
BBC FILM: How to Thrive in 2050!
BBC FILM: How to Thrive in 2050!
READ: Artful Agile Atypical Octopussy (>1387 views)
READ: Artful Agile Atypical Octopussy (>1387 views)
FIRST ARTIST ON EDITORIAL BOARD of: Royal College of Psychiatrist's British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin
FIRST ARTIST ON EDITORIAL BOARD of: Royal College of Psychiatrist's British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin
FRONTIERS: Covid 19 and neuroaesthetics (read >10K times)
FRONTIERS: Covid 19 and neuroaesthetics (read >10K times)
BUY BUY: Tapestry, drawings, badges, advice
BUY BUY: Tapestry, drawings, badges, advice
READ: Entangling art and psychiatry (read >3072 times)
READ: Entangling art and psychiatry (read >3072 times)
TWITTER: News & more. Good tweets mine, crappy ones others’
TWITTER: News & more. Good tweets mine, crappy ones others’
OP-ED: Novel viruses demand novel responses
OP-ED: Novel viruses demand novel responses
READ: Anti-racism and Higher Education
READ: Anti-racism and Higher Education
WATCH: ADHD film (viewed >56K times)
WATCH: ADHD film (viewed >56K times)
FIRST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE at Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre: Art+psychiatry creative research project #MagicCarpet as
FIRST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE at Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre: Art+psychiatry creative research project #MagicCarpet as
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PhD THESIS: Running (downloaded >4234 times)
NETWORK: Neurodiversity In/And Creative Research
NETWORK: Neurodiversity In/And Creative Research
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