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ItemThe telepathy project( 2012)The thesis comprises two interrelated parts: An exhibition of artwork generated by and in response to telepathic prompts and processes, including telepathic events made with people from around the world at varying physical distances and degrees of intimacy. These attempts/events manifest as curatorial projects, performances, conversations, lectures, photographic tableaux, drawings, paintings, dream interventions and group wall drawings. The second part of the thesis comprises a written dissertation that responds to and expands on the practice led research by introducing a range of thinkers, writers and artists who approach telepathy in their work. In particular it is concerned with the ways Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida apprehended and deployed telepathy in their writing. The text proceeds via a logic of association and assemblage – a telepathic writing – finding its precedent in Derrida’s Telepathe. Emerging out of this research is a discussion and performance of some of the anxieties generated in the practice and contained in the literature and current knowledge surrounding the questions telepathy poses for subjectivity, interpretation and meaning making. This has been achieved by shifting some of the questions telepathy posed to Freud and Derrida et al. to a contemporary art practice. This shift has allowed new nuances in the discourse around telepathy to emerge and it is this that comprises the research’s original contribution to knowledge.