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Legislative proposal: Dyslexia with pride
2024 | mixed media | print; website; t-shirts; seating elements
exhibited | Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Struer Museum; Roskilde Festival
Link to online artistic manifesto ︎︎︎︎
Dyslexia with Pride is an artistic manifesto in the form of a Danish legislative proposal. It imagines new laws that reframe dyslexia in education, celebrating it as a strength and empowering those who live with it to feel proud and recognized in society.︎︎︎︎
Installation view at Struer Museum
As part of her choir-performance Advantages of Being Dyslexic at Roskilde Festival, Nymann attracted significant attention by handing out green t-shirts saying “Mattias Tesfaye – coffee with me?”, with a QR code linking to the manifesto.
By addressing Tesfaye, the Danish Minister for Children and Education, the action combined humor with seriousness, sparking conversations about dyslexia and neurodiversity in the Danish educational system.
PRESS
“Julie Nymann is proud to live with dyslexia – it has its advantages: She now has six proposals for the Minister of Education”
– Berlingske
By addressing Tesfaye, the Danish Minister for Children and Education, the action combined humor with seriousness, sparking conversations about dyslexia and neurodiversity in the Danish educational system.
PRESS
“Julie Nymann is proud to live with dyslexia – it has its advantages: She now has six proposals for the Minister of Education”
– Berlingske
For Our Voices Carry Future Dreams at Roskilde Festival 2025, Nymann created seating elements featuring statements from her legislative proposals, including a call to stop using (ordblind) “word-blindness” for dyslexia.
Nymann’s artistic manifesto and her broader practice focusing on dyslexia and neurodiversity have established her as a prominent voice in discussions on learning and well-being, earning widespread media recognition. Her work has created tangible impact, inspiring positive change and opening new approaches to education. Through these immersive pieces, participants gain sensory and human insights into learning experiences that are often reduced to tests, diagnoses, and support documents.
Nymann’s artistic manifesto and her broader practice focusing on dyslexia and neurodiversity have established her as a prominent voice in discussions on learning and well-being, earning widespread media recognition. Her work has created tangible impact, inspiring positive change and opening new approaches to education. Through these immersive pieces, participants gain sensory and human insights into learning experiences that are often reduced to tests, diagnoses, and support documents.
CREDITS
artist
Julie Nymann
text editor
Helle Harnisch
Ida Vestergaard Øyan
graphic designer
Kasper Aavad
translator
Ami Frost
thank you
Andrea Diermayr, Lars Bo Henriksen, Louise Rytter, Silas Emmery, Vibeke Rasmussen and all the teachers I had the pleasure of engaging with.
Julie Nymann
text editor
Helle Harnisch
Ida Vestergaard Øyan
graphic designer
Kasper Aavad
translator
Ami Frost
thank you
Andrea Diermayr, Lars Bo Henriksen, Louise Rytter, Silas Emmery, Vibeke Rasmussen and all the teachers I had the pleasure of engaging with.