Taryn Goodwin (we/she/they) is a neurodivergent, disabled, trans, queer, inter-disciplinary social practice artist, writer, and community organizer. They are invested in supporting asynchronous, remote, and digitally embodied connections, communities, and conversations that re-imagine working cultures and campus communities for all Mind Bodies to feel engaged and supported. Their work aims to point out the “Disembodied Pace of Institutional Learning” and to provide an avenue for creative working cultures and post-secondary learners to understand care for our own and collective well-being as a professional practice and ethic of leadership.
Committed to gathering lived experiences as tools for long-lasting impact to change educational policy, procedures and practices to address, Taryn’s Who Does the University Exist For? re-imagines academic governance structures and campus communities. Taryn currently practices their work through a physical posture of rest and joy from their couch or bed on the unceded traditional territories of the Pentlach and K’òmoks Coast Salish People. We are currently open for virtual artist talks, podcasts, one-one care management in project design sessions in community and classroom settings upon request.
I believe that Sync Canada is the perfect transition as a recent BFA Graduate to help continue paving a slow-full, sustainable and professional future as a Neuro-Divergent and Disability Artist with well-being, community, and connections of relational thoughtfulness at the center.