Referencing current violent social conditions, Telepathic Improvisation uses humans and non-humans, movement, speech, gesture, music, light, and smoke to interpret composer Pauline Oliveros’s 1974 score of the same title. The audience is called to communicate telepathically with all of the elements on-screen, including performers Marwa Arsanios, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch, and MPA. Challenging the idea of images as mere depictions of (political) actions, this filmed performance speaks to the productive tension between the fantasy of an action and the action itself. Telepathic Improvisation was organized by Alhena Katsof and Mason Leaver-Yap. The exhibition was presented at PARTICIPANT INC. in New York City; and The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The film, Telepathic Improvisation, is a collaboration between Walker Art Center’s Moving Image Commissions and EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.