‘Sensory Bat Womb’ is a multisensory performance installation originally conceptualised in 2023 as part of my ‘Upside-Down People’ showcase of works at The Capitol, Melbourne. The work has since developed into something that better expresses the concepts and ambience I had initially hoped for and have been better able to achieve as my creative practice has developed. The work engages with the important, active role Bats take in growing my sense of autistic personhood. The wor

Bats were once considered to be strange, featherless Birds condemned to the night, surely longing for the light of day like other Birds. Not unlike autistic people - expected to exist in ways that are not natural for us and assumed to be unhappy with our tragic lot in life. Bat's aren't Birds though - and just like autistic people they have their own ways of doing things. Ah, Poor Bird - take your flight Up above the sorrow of this dark night. Ah, Poor Bird - as you fly Can