On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in
ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook
State School, an institution on Staten
Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016/17); Historicode: Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China, (2016/17); fugue
states, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2015); Ripples on The Pond, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2015); MOTHS, Summerhall, Edinburgh (2015); 3 Scripts for Future - telling, a performance for Tenletters, Glasgow (2015); Our Extra-Sensory Selves (premiere), Glasgow International Film Festival (2015); Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers, an exhibition with Allison Gibbs, Ken Jacobs and Joachim Koester at Dan Gunn Berlin, curated by Heidi
Ballet and Anselm Franke (2014); Spirits of Ecstasy (Murnau's Death Mask), The Happy Hypocrite - Heat
Island (issue 7 spring 2014 edited by Isla Leaver - Yap); Kelly, Glasgow International (2014) and SPIRIT SHADOW SPECTRE BONES and PHANTOM, Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013).