𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢

Image: Jacquelene Drinkall, Can We Transcend the Telepathic Singularity? (detail), 2022. Gauche on paper, 76.5 x 101.5 cm. Image courtesy of Alex Wisser

Jacquelene Drinkall; Warren Neidich; Michael Petchkovsky; Lia Kemmis; Mahalya Middlemist and Laurence Hall; The Telepathy Project (Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples); Benjamin Denham; Shoufay Derz; Tabita Rezaire; Gabriele Stellbaum; Lorenzo Sandoval; Sarah Breen Lovett; Linda Dement and Nancy Mauro-Flude; Michele Barker and Anna Munster; Haines & Hinterding; Carolyn McKenzie Craig; Antonia Sellbach; Peter Hill

Gallery 1

Friday 17 March - Sunday 9 April 2023

Opening Thursday 16 March 2023, 6pm - 8pm

Curated by artist Jacquelene Drinkall, 'Cosmotechnic Telepathics in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism' consists of two parts, a solo and a group show. Working with a diverse range of multidisciplinary International, Australian and local artists, Drinkall expands on her collaborative curations ‘Art and Telepathy' (2016) as well as 'Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art’ and ‘Telepathy and New Labour’ developed with Warren Neidich and his Artbrain team for the 'Activist Neuroaesthetics' festival in Berlin (2021). 

Contextualised by Drinkall’s artistic research into telepathy within ‘dark green’ ecology (informed by eco-theorists Timothy Morton, John Zerzan and Bron Taylor) and plant-based psychedelics, the exhibition aesthetically engages with 'Cosmotechnics'. Cosmotechnics, as defined by philosopher of technology Yuk Hui in his book 'Art and Cosmotechnics' (2021), is the use of art, craft and design to unify the cosmos and the moral, through technical activities.

Cosmotechnic Telepathics in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism examines capitalist telepathics within cognitive and surveillance capitalism. Through investigations into digital telepathic infrastructure such as The Internet of Everything (the aim to automate all human processes), and current developments in Brain Computer Interfaces, Drinkall and her fellow artists explore the differences between 'regenerative' and ‘extractive' forms of telepathy.

The exhibition discerns the pathologies that arise, as telepathy melds with new forms of digital, cybernetic, and algorithmic labouring. Whilst deeply critical and sometimes symptomatic of the intersection of cognitive and surveillance capitalism the exhibition clearly embraces liberatory telepathics as part of the cure.

𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 is supported by

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Resources

Activist Neuroaesthetics Telepathy and New Labor newspaper, Image courtesy of artists.

Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader

Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art 
Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art  will have its third iterative screening in Australia in 'Cosmotechnic Telepathics in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism' at M16 Artspace Gallery since premiering at the Activist Neuroaesthetics festival in Berlin in 2021. Learn more

Telepathy and New Labor
Download the free PDF ; Telepathy and New Labor newspaper. Edited by Jacquelene Drinkall and produced by Artbrain and Verein Rosa Luxembourg-Platz. Download here

Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader
Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader is attached here as a free PDF book, courtesy of Warren Neidich and Artbrain. Download here

Capitalist Telepathics, Psychic Debt and the Search for Collective Intelligence
Read Capitalist Telepathics, Psychic Debt and the Search for Collective Intelligence, an article by Jacquelene Drinkall. Read more here or download here

Neuromodulations of Extro-Scientific Telepathy
Read Jacquelene Drinkall’s text, an excerpt published in Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part 3, edited by Warren Neidich. Download here

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𝗠𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. 𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 ‘𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. 𝗦𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱.