Telepoetics: Practices of Intimacy at a Distance is a hybrid literary project that experiments with distance communication.
The presumption that two bodies can influence each other or act in concert, without actually being in physical contact, is the subject of this telepathic experimentation. Through 28 telepathy sessions spread across one year, P & B take turns in transmitting and receiving, each time starting with a photograph. They generate a poetic visual correspondence that involves learning to negotiate distance – not to overcome it, but a way of traveling within it.
In his essay Telepathy, which is reproduced in this book, the French philosopher Jacques Derrida uses the phrase “transference and telepoetics”, referring to letters and postcards, to describe how the Self symbolically identifies with the Other and begins to manifest an inner representation of this beloved Other, namely: a constellation of meanings confined in the psyche, where our endless conversation begins.
Inspired by Derrida’s profound understanding that telepathic transference is, in a sense, more about “what is not there” than “what is there”, Telepoetics – Practices of Intimacy at a Distance invites imaginary readings and targets all that is invisible: memories, absences, and richly layered female subjectivities.
