Discussion: Beyond Telepathy

Beyond Telepathy presents an evening of new performances and transdisciplinary discussions investigating the potential of communication without a shared language yet urged on by an acute sense of codependence.
How to leap beyond telepathy - to fathom affinities other than kinship, connections woven without linguistic threads? What may telepathy imply in the age of omnipresent 'action at a distance', beyond the dichotomy of spiritual mediations vs technological networks?
Guided by the complexity of ecological challenges faced today, Beyond Telepathy draws into dialogue emergent epistemologies and embodied practices driven by the urgency to experiment towards future modes and meanings of co-existence. The discussions shed light into the research that inform the performances, engaging with concepts and phenomena such as fungal symbiosis, natural computing, and energetic transference.
Beyond Telepathy includes contributions from Somerset House Studios resident artists Florence Peake and Erica Scourti, alongside artists Essi Kausalainen, Jenna Sutela, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Anne de Boer and Eloïse Bonneviot. They will be in conversation with Luciana Parisi, Jamie Sutcliffe, Ros Gray and Lotte Juul Petersen.

The event is curated by Taru Elfving in partnership with Wysing Arts Centre and in collaboration with Somerset House Studios and SPACE Art + Technology. Supported by The Finnish Institute in London.
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PROGRAMME
5pm - The Mycological Twist
Eloise Bonneviot & Anne de Boer

5.20pm - Introduction: Beyond Telepathy
Taru Elfving

5.30pm - Gut-Machine Poetry
Jenna Sutela

6pm - once the workers have been enslaved, a state of erotic communism will be declared, globally
Gary Zhexi Zhang

6.20pm
Discussion: Jenna Sutela, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Luciana Parisi and Jamie Sutcliffe

7pm - Erica Scourti

7.20pm - The voracious Cunt aka Inter-penetrating waves of energy constellating in time and space
Florence Peake

7.50pm - Lovers
Essi Kausalainen

8.20pm - Discussion: Florence Peake, Essi Kausalainen, Ros Gray, Lotte Juul Petersen and Taru Elfving