Fordelen ved at være ordblind
Advantages of being dyslexic2024 | 8-channel sound installation | 5x5 m green fabric room | 21:00 min
exhibited | Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Struer Museum; Dokk1
Advantages of Being Dyslexic is a 21-minute immersive, monumental sound installation. Eight speakers fill a green fabric room, inviting visitors to listen to powerful, personal stories about dyslexia. These voices, collected from more than 80 people aged 10–70 through workshops and an open call led by the artist in 2023, offer intimate glimpses into the many ways dyslexia shapes life and thinking.
More than 500,000 people live with dyslexia in Denmark, and for most of the workshop participants, it was the first time they were asked about the advantages of dyslexia.
The work highlights how their ways of coping with dyslexia can be seen as a superpower. It challenges society’s perception of dyslexia and offers a layered understanding of lived experiences and neurodiversity.
The work highlights how their ways of coping with dyslexia can be seen as a superpower. It challenges society’s perception of dyslexia and offers a layered understanding of lived experiences and neurodiversity.
Nymann’s work focuses on the first-person perspective, exploring what it feels like to have dyslexia, and questions societal narratives that frame dyslexia primarily through deficit.
By emphasizing the strengths that dyslexia has given rise to for the participating individuals, Nymann turns the discourse upside down and, through aesthetic means, invites curiosity about dyslexia, its causes, and its consequences.
By emphasizing the strengths that dyslexia has given rise to for the participating individuals, Nymann turns the discourse upside down and, through aesthetic means, invites curiosity about dyslexia, its causes, and its consequences.
Advantages of Being Dyslexic examines dyslexia not only as a learning difficulty but as a personal and embodied experience, using aesthetic strategies to open up new understandings and conversations within educational, communicative, and artistic contexts.
PRESS
"I could relate to almost everything and felt acknowledged and understood."
— Anonymous museum visitor
— Anonymous museum visitor
Installation view at Struer Museum
CREDITS
artist
Julie Nymann
sound designer
Joëlle McGovern Serret
»samlet union«
composer & producer
Agnes Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg
narrator
Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen
Mette Moltke Wozniak
Julie Nymann
voices
Limfjordskolen Struer, Ordblindeklubben Nørre Nissum, FGU Vesterbro, Anette Marcher, Kim Lykkegaard and Marie Vedsmand
writer
Julie Nymann
script editor
Agnes Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg
dramaturgi
Julie Nymann
Joëlle McGovern Serret
technical coordination
Kristine Bech Sørensen
technical assistance
Nikolaj N. Phillipsen
Keith Allan
Tilda Lundbohm
Julie Nymann
sound designer
Joëlle McGovern Serret
»samlet union«
composer & producer
Agnes Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg
narrator
Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen
Mette Moltke Wozniak
Julie Nymann
voices
Limfjordskolen Struer, Ordblindeklubben Nørre Nissum, FGU Vesterbro, Anette Marcher, Kim Lykkegaard and Marie Vedsmand
writer
Julie Nymann
script editor
Agnes Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg
dramaturgi
Julie Nymann
Joëlle McGovern Serret
technical coordination
Kristine Bech Sørensen
technical assistance
Nikolaj N. Phillipsen
Keith Allan
Tilda Lundbohm
Struer Museum exhibition is supported by
Færch Fonden, the Danish Arts Foundation, EgeFonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, the Hielmstierne-Rosencrone Foundation, and Kvadrat.
Exit 24 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is supported by
Politiken-Fonden and Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat
special thanks to all of you for sharing your stories
All teachers and dyslexics who were part of ‘Fordelene ved at være ordblind’-workshops at Københavns VUC, FGU Vesterbro, Limfjordskolen Struer, Ordblindeklubben at Nørre Nissum skole, dyslexics students in higher education who receive SPS, and dyslexics in a public open call
thank you
Sound Art Lab, Ordblindeinstituttet, SPS counselor at Københavns VUC, Struer municipality and library
furthermore, thank you
Andrea Diermayr, Helle Harnisch, Ida Vestergaard Øyan, Jane Hye Jin Kaisen, Kristel Laurits, Kristine Bech Sørensen, Lars Bo Henriksen, Lars Buchholtz, Louise Rytter, Maibritt Borgen, Oskar Koliander, Pi Bartholdy, Rune Søchting, Silas Emmery, Troels Dankert, and Vibeke Rasmussen
Færch Fonden, the Danish Arts Foundation, EgeFonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, the Hielmstierne-Rosencrone Foundation, and Kvadrat.
Exit 24 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is supported by
Politiken-Fonden and Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat
special thanks to all of you for sharing your stories
All teachers and dyslexics who were part of ‘Fordelene ved at være ordblind’-workshops at Københavns VUC, FGU Vesterbro, Limfjordskolen Struer, Ordblindeklubben at Nørre Nissum skole, dyslexics students in higher education who receive SPS, and dyslexics in a public open call
thank you
Sound Art Lab, Ordblindeinstituttet, SPS counselor at Københavns VUC, Struer municipality and library
furthermore, thank you
Andrea Diermayr, Helle Harnisch, Ida Vestergaard Øyan, Jane Hye Jin Kaisen, Kristel Laurits, Kristine Bech Sørensen, Lars Bo Henriksen, Lars Buchholtz, Louise Rytter, Maibritt Borgen, Oskar Koliander, Pi Bartholdy, Rune Søchting, Silas Emmery, Troels Dankert, and Vibeke Rasmussen