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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">What an inspiring array of posts. The Age of Aquarius, as Arshiya has notes, marks an epoch of expanded consciousness and individual freedoms. This planetary alignment arrives as a moment of promise in
expanded intuition where at the same time privacy is in danger of being eroded by the surveillance capitalism of big data. I resonate with Sally’s perception that the mood is at once “super-charged…and vulnerable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">It is interesting that Spiritualism arose at an affective climate of collective grief (the American Civil War) coinciding with emancipatory social movements, in particular abolitionist feminism. The current
paranormal opening, likewise, arrives at the crest of collective grief stemming from the pandemic and Black Lives Matter. The tone of the moment was presciently anticipated by Okwui Enwezor whose posthumous Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
is now on exhibition at the New Museum (<a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/grief-and-grievance-art-and-mourning-in-america-1">https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/grief-and-grievance-art-and-mourning-in-america-1</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">But I wanted to pick up the thread of Renate and Tim’s work on sense/sensation signalled by Ann. It appears that touch and the tactile interface operate in relation to intuitive technologies such as the
séance (where hands are held in a circle to create a current supporting mediumship), to Chrysanne’s aura photographs (which involved a tactile biofeedback interface to generate images), to the relationality of the Tarot reading (where the handling of cards
has operated emblematically in allegories of touch since Caravaggio). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">In regard to the performativity of intuition: Ruth, I’d be interested in hearing more about the staging of the playing card cartomancy of the Canadian clairvoyant you mention; and Bev, might you envision
the role touch in reading your new Tarot cards? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">And on the documenting of the séance: Serena, do the mediums in the Hamiltons’ photographs directly address the photographers when in a spirit circle? Chrysanne, how did you orchestrate the aura photographs
to have non-English-speaking subjects peer directly at the lens (as many of your compelling subjects do) with their hands on the biofeedback interfact.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Warmly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Jennifer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Jennifer Fisher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Professor Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Department of Visual Art and Art History CFA 252<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">York University 4700 Keele Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">jefish@yorku.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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