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Troels Steenholdt Heiredal

@theiredal.bsky.social

Autistic & neuroqueer Artist and Architect for more see: https://www.troelsheiredal.com/links

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Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 7d ago

Love @dr-nicky.bsky.social’s take on what happens when the collective goes to a person. An overall great read.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism@thinkingautism.com · last wk.

Today in reminders about people who used to be cool but now really and truly suck: Judy Singer was widely credited with coining the term " #neurodiversity," but research has since revealed that she did... not. Also she is a raging transphobe. TY @slooterman.bsky.social: 19thnews.org/2024/04/neur...

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reading my poem ‘struggling to fit into the language’ part of a triptych published by Parentheses Review #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Poetry #LoudReading

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We come into contact with our environments every day, though we often shield ourselves from them with clothes, shoes, and gloves. I’ve always been extremely sensitive to the textures around me. #Textures #Collection #Art

A photograph of me, a white male with semi-long, medium-blond hair, wearing a black t-shirt and a hat. Pressing a small notebook onto a rock, and rubbing a blank page with a pencil, lifting an imprint of the texture below. Below the image, it says Textures, and on top of it, New Mexico, 2021, both in capital letters.

An open notebook, with a texture on the right side while the left side is halfway whitened out. The texture is a black field with a series of scratches in it. Over the texture, it says Frontside: Texture, in English and traditional Chinese. Two lines lead out of the frame to the right.

The two lines from the previous photo enter from the left. The top on goes over an open notebook and points to text saying Backside: Info in English and Traditional Chinese. The bottom one points to five handwritten lines at the bottom of the left page, which says: Diner w/ Panthea; Gabriella; Candy & James / 20250330 / Table Top / 弎樓 Third Floor; Songshan; Taipei; Taiwan / Wood [Painted; pealing]. The right page with a texture has been whitened out.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It was an honor and joy to interview Erin Manning for arq [Architectural Research Quarterly]. Erin has helped my thinking tremendously over the years, opening it to a more-than world, constantly becoming, constantly fielding, constantly emerging. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticArchitecture #ErinManning

Me sitting in my office chair reading the arq magazine. I’m wearing dark pants and a light green-grey t-shirt, the sun is pouring in from the left side, on the white wall behind me are two framed kids drawings (the frst drawing my nephew and niece made for me).

Close-up photo of the first page of the arq magazine, the title ‘Exploring autistic perception in architecture’ is readable. Over the photo at the top right corner, capitalized text is added reading: INTERVIEW W/ ERIN MANNING

Photograph of a spread from the magazine, the right side is three columns of text, the left side is a print of a large drawing, under it added digitally, it says, in all caps: THE AARHUS DRAWING

Digital text in dark blue-grey reading: “Autistic perception is both more detailed and more abstract. It feels into complexity that defy genre. Not ‘a’ house, but housefield.” Erin Manning

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've animated my redrawing of Autism. Traditional Chinese characters are incredible, as they hold multiple ways of re-reading, something our Western alphabet was stripped of by the Greeks, according to the insightful book "The Spell of the Sensuous" by David Abram. #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAwareness

Justine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On this week's "Bubble People," @slooterman.bsky.social talks autism representation in film/TV. We also welcome @ericmgarcia.bsky.social, and we all talk "Heated Rivalry," autistic sex, and barbie. Out tomorrow! Subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... www.youtube.com/shorts/peWJT...

Autistic Characters as Stereotypical Checklists

YouTube video by The Bubble People Podcast

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Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Grateful to Ave Astra for publishing this poem, that is really special to me as it outlines ideas of #neuroqueering the spaces where most connections and thus opportunities are made, which are currently incredible #neurotypical #ActualAutistic #AutieType #poetry #LoudReading

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m overly excited that #Wordgathering has published my essay-poem Impressions of Pure Joy. This piece was the first time I committed to the page, my feelings / thoughts/ experiences / around coming-aut, which means this piece is just really special to me... #ActuallyAutistic #AutieType

Photo of me sitting on a green couch, wearing dark blue pants, and a green shirt with folds across it as part of the design. I’m reading from a stack of grey papers. In the background are a bunch of plants in front of a large corner window, through which the top of a tree can be seen. On the wall are two framed photos.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I learned that #Autism in traditional Mandarin is called zì bì zhèng, which means Self Enclosed Disease. But I see Autism as a natural occurrence; a perception of life—not a disease. I was reminded of a conversation... #ActuallyAutistic #Disability

At the top of the image, it says: Autism Redefined. Below are four Mandarin hand-painted characters on top of each other. From the top they mean: self, gate, talent, and right.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Within the multiple exposure I’m building new worlds by centering the overlaps and collisions of our environment. #AutisticPerception teaches us that the world is never stable, but always becoming in our perceptual interactions with it... #ContainerCamera #ActuallyAutistic #ExperimentalPhotography

A photo of the night projection inside the Containe Camera. Across the middle of the mostly black image, two white towers are seen, flanked by a turquoise tilted pyramidic form. A fog drifts across this entire section, and scattered lights are dotted around. A few human shapes are seen as silhouettes against electrical lights. Above the scene is a series of red and green hexagons hoovering trailed by yellow light dots continuing the shape.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thrilled to have my poem “Opposites of the Same Monologue” included in the newest issue issue of Void Space Zine by @melissacuisine Please visit the Void Space website to read all wonderful contributions #FoundPoetry #AutisticPerception #LoudReading #Poem

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Inside the #ContainerCamera. It has been a pleasure to meet and talk to the audience. Hearing their experiences and seeing the constellations they are building, moving the screens and mirrors, adding and subtracting the lenses. #ExperimentalPhotography #CameraOnscura #AutisticPerception

Close up of a plywood wall with a plywood lens in the center, to the right of the lens, a dark mirror on hinges sits. Two projections of Kaohsiung's skyline overlap on the plywood; two people are seen standing on the pier midway towards another container arts project. The two projections are at different heights, so that the skyline, pier, ocean, and greenery overlap to create new unforeseen compositions.

Interior view of the artist explaining some of the interactive functions of the camera to an audience member, who is playing with a mirror that moves the image between different projection screens. Behind them on a large plywood wall, an upside-down projection of Kaohsiung is visible with a cloudy sky folding over the bench at the bottom of the wall.

Interior view with an audience member in the center holding up a small portable screen, moving it around the space to find unique constellations. The projections are also visible on the audience members' light colored clothing.

Interior view of a person holding up a screen changing the focal point to show a singular person standing on top of a small hill under some trees in front of the hexagon facade of the Kaohsiung Music Center.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Container Camera is now open as part of Kaohsiung Container Arts Festival organized by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. The #ContainerCamera is a #PublicArtInstallation, turning a 20' container into a #MultiLens #CameraObscura. Wherein the audience is invited to interact with the artwork.

Interior of the Container Camera, where the artist is showing audience members ways to interact with the work. Adding/removing lenses will change the focal length of the projections, which allows the audience to move the projections around the container space. In the photo, a projection of the exterior is visible on a large multi colored hanging fabric screen.

Close-up photo of a projection on multi colored fabric screen. The photo is flipped to show the typical upside-down projection the right way up. In the projections, a dramatic sky takes on the color of the fabric, under which the ocean carries a series of sailboats docked near an expressive bridge. A few people are visible walking along the pier, and standing tall to the left is another container artwork by misosoupdesign

Interior view of the Container Camera, where audiences are interacting with the work by adjusting lenses and mirrors. Projections are seen on a large multi colored screen, a white screen, and a plywood wall.

Dark interior view, at the back, three audience members are seen observing a large screen; one of the audience members is engaging with a mirror that moves one of the projections across the screen.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm very excited about turning a shipping container into a multi lens camera obscura for this year's Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts International Container Arts Festival. Link in Bio for more. #ContainerCamera #櫃相 #KMFA #AutisticPerception #ActuallyAutistic #ExperimentalPhotgraphy

Slide 01: Exterior rendering collage of the Container Camera at the site, showing a person in a wheelchair up the entrance ramp, photographing the narrative mounted exteriorly explaining what the space is like. In the background Kaohsiung Music Center.

Slide 02: The interior is a mixture of contemporary, clean-cut wood elements and the raw container walls, allowing for both the rough and refined to coexist.

Slide 03: Container Camera reaches out to the city of Kaohsiung. A fragmented map of Kaohsiung’s harbor area, on top of which the container camera stands in the center. From it, three triangles extend, showing the areas that will be visible from within the container camera.

Slide 04: A digital drawing of the plan, around it are the six views that will be visible inside the container camera, based on the estimated location at the site. The views will be overlapped and mixed through the different lenses.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Grateful to be included in the Ostrale Biennale ‘Never Grey’ Sky Constellation I & IV are part of my work exploring Autistic perception within my experimental film photography. Installation photos by Ostrale #AutisticPerception #ActuallyAutistic #ExperimentalPhotography #120mm #MultipleExposure

Slide 01: Photo from the biennale, the two square works, each a composition of four distinct exposures of geometrical figures, in different shades of blue on a black background. The two works are hanging on a white wall to the right; the space opens into another room with gray walls where a person is seen from the back.

$Slide 03: Sky Constellation I, four distinct exposures in shades of blue, a large faded circle holding a smaller bright almost white circle, which is penetrated by a triangle pointing left, with the two corners above each other on the right side, just touching the edge of the large circle, on the back of the triangle is a long thin rectangle taking up almost the entire vertical space with its outside edge being a tangent to the large circle. Below is a poem translated to German and in the original English which reads: and I actually still don’t \ quite know what I did \ or why I did it \ I could feel it \ I knew I would do it \ I had to do it \ but what it was / I was doing \ I wasn’t sure \ I guess I was looking for something \ besides me$ $Slide 04: Sky Constellation IV, four distinct exposures in shades of blue, an large square separated into two different shades, where its edges slight miss aligned, holds a smaller darker square inside at the bottom, which is again subdivided into two rectangle darker and light blue, by a larger rectangle, which also subdivides the large square into two, a left and right side, only the color difference is less, behind it all is a standing up right trapezoid, all on a black background. Below is a poem translated to German and in the original English which reads: I realized that I had things \ in my head \ not like what I had seen \ shapes and ideas so familiar to me \ to me to put them down interested \ to put away everything \ and to start to say the things that were my own \ no one around to look at what I was doing no one \ no one to say anything about it \ or another \ and singularly free \ working on my own \ unknown Found Poetry | Georgia O’Keeffe | Some memories of Drawings, 1974$ Slide 05: Installation view, strong horizontal lines above head are enhanced by lights, on the left side a blue wall with a an artwork in an orange frame, in the middle a few white walls, where Sky Constellation I & IV are hanging and to the right grey walls with a horizontal art work taking up most of the space, suspended by wires from the ceiling.

Slide 05: Installation view, strong horizontal lines above head are enhanced by lights, on the left side a blue wall with a an artwork in an orange frame, in the middle a few white walls, where Sky Constellation I & IV are hanging and to the right grey walls with a horizontal art work taking up most of the space, suspended by wires from the ceiling.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Reading my poem Like Zooming published earlier this year by @wishbonewords.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticPoetry #Poetry #LoudReading

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Strip Constellation I - made while driving down the strip in Las Vegas to capture the absolute overstimulation of your senses. @lensculture.bsky.social Street Photography Awards Submission #ExperimentalPhotography #MultipleExposure #120mm #AutisticPerception #LensCulture

A slightly portrait multiple exposure photograph on a black background. The photo shows scenes from the Las Vegas Strip, with cars merging from the different exposures in the middle ground, behind them are different buildings including The Venitian (the sign is visible to the left) and the replica Marcus Tower to the right, faded by the over lapping sky the dominates the top right corner, where a couple of construction cranes are also seen, the bottom is at first glance a mixture of road ways and a clear shadow from a curved sidewalk fence, here are then two larger figures suddenly seen in the center, leading your eyes to see more smaller people mixed in with the cars in the middle ground

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Diagrams of my #process for making the 'Down The Street' #ExperimentalPhotography project using an #AutisticPerception to 'roll' up the street, producing a new view of the city, showing how different parts are interconnected. #ActuallyAutistic #35mm

Photo of the continuous 35mm negative filmstrip. Given the difficulties of starting the film from the same point, for each of the four exposures of the entire film, the final frames are overlapping.

A cutout of the island of Manhattan rotated to make the avenue grid parallel to the horizon, placed on top of large letters spelling Manhattan. 3rd Avenue is highlighted in white and boxed by an orange dashed box, which is dublicated below made bigger so show a section of the cross streets, starting, not at the beginning of 3rd Ave, but at E15 Street and counting up to E125. Above a diagram of 3rd Ave, on the top shows how the first exposure of the film (35mm) was from E15 to E42 Street, the second E43 to E70, the third E71 to E97, the fourth E98 to E125. Below are four examples of the view at the cross streets. All are seen from 3rd Ave looking East down the middle of the street. In the corner of the photos, the street number is indicated. The photos are screenshots from Google Earth, from 2014, the year this project was done.

Diagram showing when you stand in the middle looking down the street, the typical layout will dictate that there will be buildings on either side, the street as a wedge below and the sky as on above, all meeting in the empty perspective point in the center. Above a diagrammatic layout of buildings, street, and sky, with small local adjustments fits more or less all the streets, making each photo similar in conceptual composition.

Diagram showing how the section of 3rd Ave is divided into the four exposure zones, then rolled around each other. This corresponds to the camera being landscape for exposure one, portrait (turned left) for exposure two, landscape (upside-down) for exposure three, porrait (turned right) for exposure four. Above a diagram showing the orientation of the camera during the 4 exposure zones, below the camera is an example of the street view, with framing shown in dashed lines, pulled out below. The photos shown as they appear on the film in the camera. Over a diagram showing that turning the camera 90 degrees between each exposure of the roll, will turn this conceptual view of the street around the center of the photograph.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm still trying to best rearrange this collage of 20 individually exposed 8x10 inch #SilverGelatin. Exposed one by one over a period of 4-5 hrs, done in a multi-lense #CameraObscura and #darkroom. #AutisticPerception #ActuallyAutistic #Analog

A collage a 20 individually exposed silver gelatines, in black and white negative. The collage is irregular as the papers don't make a perfect square, a mixture of the view down the street and across the street is shown. Down the street you see running facades, fire escapes, and a few signs (Eco an italian restaurant and Mudville a craft beer pub) and across the street the facade of DC 37 Health Center, with greek columns, and a gated facade. The work was done by Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in 2014.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Excerpt from NOT JUST INCLUDED—EMBEDDED reading the informal architectures of Taipei through a disability lens asking what we all can learn from a communal diverse approach to space making. Full film: link in bio. #ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityArchitecture #ShortFilm #MultipleExposue #Architecture

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Reading my poem slightly which I’m thrilled to have included in ‪@frazzledlit.bsky.social‬ latest issue. Please consider reading the entire magazine. #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #Poetry #LoudReading #AutisticPoet

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

In 2014 I was invited to fill out Front Art Space on Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan. I built my first multi lensed camera obscura as the center piece for the show MERT: Multiple Exposure in Real Time. #SilverGelatin #MultipleExposure #CameraObscura #Analog #ActuallyAutistic

2pc. 8x10 inch portrait top over bottom inverted black and white silver gelatin; the right side is a dark shadow, a couple of light rings at the bottom makes it read as a column, the left side is a chaotic mix of light and shadow, which reads as a tight alley, thought it is a mixed view of Chambers Street.

8x10 inch portrait inverted black and white silver gelatin, three strips of facade is visible, the centred facade is seen at an angle, while the two next to it are front facing, over this composition are some horizontal shadow lines and a lighter large grid pattern.

8x10 inch portrait inverted black and white silver gelatin: the scene is bright, a fire hydrant and metal railing which should be solid and straight are wavy as if seen through water, everything is in movement. The paper crumbled while being exposed, and flattened after, creating this effect.

11x14 inch portrait inverted black and white silver gelatin; a shadow sits in the center and lower part of the image is the first thing you’ll see, then notice that a child like drawing of a face is scratched into the surface of the paper, after seen this you can read the shadow as a vague portrait showing just more than half a face.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

My poem Arriving from the latest beautiful issue from @wishbonewords.bsky.social, please consider supporting this gentle magazine which amplifies voice too often left out. #ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityPoetry #Poetry #LoudReading

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

To me there’s something almost straightforward about a multi lensed camera obscura, but I realize that they are likely unfamiliar to most; so allow me to show a bit of the process here, using the camera obscura at the center of the exhibition How Do We Project. The camera operates similar to a...

A diagram showing how the images from the outside, as seen through the window frames in the space, gets projected into the camera space, and is visible upside down.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Reading my poem un-Locked which I’m privileged to have included in @vallummag.bsky.social‬ first chapbook edition of ‘Poems from the Crowd’ The layout of the poem opens towards non-linear reading, which is why I’m reading parts of the poem twice, see the layout at the end of the video…

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Working with my Hasselblad 500C/M I noticed a tiny sliver of space inside the camera, between the back of the camera body and the detachable film case. So I started to make little cardboard squares that had different shapes cut out from them, a circle, a square, a trapezoid, and so on...

Photo of the developed 120mm film negative, showing that the three exposures are mixed directly on the film, not done in photoshop or other editing programs.

A Hasselblad 500C/M with the film-holder deattached. In front are four square cardboard pieces with different shapes cutout in them, and behind them is a stack of more cardboard cutouts. Dashed lines show how the cardboard cutout fits on the back of the camera body and another set of dashed lines shows how the film-holder fits over the cutouts. This leaves the cardboard cutout right in front of the film during the exposure, masking out the film and allowing only the cutout shape to be exposed.
And a plan of New York City and an excerpt of the area between Brooklyn and Queens, where Grand St and Metropolitan Ave crosses at the end of Newtown Creek.

Diagram showing the location and masking of the film of each of the three photos that make up the final composition.

The final developed multiple exposed photo work, showing the three overlapping exposures. Each exposure is of the industrial area around the end of Newtown Creek, New York City.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Grateful to have three poems in @wishbonewords.bsky.social issue 15. Here’s a reading of one of them: ‘Like drawing a hand or Dyslexia and how i see words as space’ For more and to read all the other beautiful contributions visit Wishbone. #Dyslexic #Poem #LoudReading #ActuallyAutistic

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Honored to have my poem ‘mirror’ in @anmlymag.bsky.social issue 40. The layout of them poems opens to non-linear reading, giving you the reader multiple ways of reading it. Here is one way, visit anmly.org to hear me read another way. #ActuallyAutistic #Poetry #LoudReading #DisabilityPoetry

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

This is me, on my couch, reading the new wonderful @mekongreview.com where the centerfold is my exhibition review of "Shifting Horizons: The Generation of Emancipatory Architecture in Taiwan" at JUT museum Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 📸 @panthealee.bsky.social #Exhibition #Review #Architecture #Criticism

A white man sitting on a light green couch, in dark pants and t-shirt reading a paper, behind him is a white wall and the his left pants in front of a window looking out onto a tree.

Close up of an article in the paper, with some plants sticking up behind it. The title of the pieces is: “Architecture in context” by Troels Steenholdt Heiredal below it is a photo from the exhibition, showing old photos and newspaper articles on a red lit background.

Photo from above of the left side of the center spread of the article, laying on a dark wood table. The article has three photos between the text.

Photo of the top of the cover of the paper reading Mekong Review, in the background there are some plants sticking up.

Troels Steenholdt Heiredal @theiredal.bsky.social · last yr.

Excerpt from my short film from the interior of the multi lensed camera obscura for the show "How Do We Project" At The Clemente. The multi lensed camera obscura is an attempt at constructing my Autistic perception as a spatial situation for others to inhabit. A collaboration with Pedro Wainer