Josephine is an auto-fictional performance text developed from participation in a Ganzfeld experiment conducted at the University of Edinburgh’s Parapsychology Department. The article treats sensory deprivation as a performative and methodological condition, using speculative narrative to examine altered perception, mediated violence, and queer hauntological memory. Drawing on performance writing, parapsychological discourse, and hauntological theory, the text stages subjective vision as a research instrument rather than a representational device. By positioning the Ganzfeld encounter as both experiment and dramaturgical event, Josephine contributes to contemporary debates on practice-based research, auto-fiction, and the role of altered consciousness in performance studies.

Published in Performance Research Volume 29 Issue 7: On Ghosts.

This article forms part of an ongoing programme of practice-based research examining altered states, mediated violence, and queer hauntology through performance writing and speculative methodologies.

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