In August 2020, I was chosen as the Long Days Artist-in-Residence at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in Kingston, Ontario to conduct an engagement with their Nan Yeomans Research Library. The library archive compiled ephemera, film, funding budgets, and public documents from artist-run centres across the land we now call Canada, dating back to the beginning of the 1970s and spanning into the 2020s. My residency project, entitled Telepathic Visions, aimed to establish a practical concept of telepathy to parse through queer ephemera, connecting myself with embodied queer histories untapped by the material world of art history’s grip on positivist Western Enlightenment philosophy. 

In this curatorial talk titled “Telepathic Visions: A Psychic Investigation of Queer Hauntings in Canadian Archives,” I will draw from my upcoming book chapter in Museum Queeries (Jagiellonian University Press) and explore a methodological framework of telepathy to establish alternative modes of psychic connection within archival spaces. The curatorial aims for the methodology of telepathy are two-fold: to escape the rigid boundaries of commodification and depersonalization in museum collections while simultaneously introducing alternative modes of queer hauntology into the archives and galleries.