Dictation from the Other Side: Surrealist channelers at Karma

Karma presents 'Dictation from the Other Side,' a group exhibition exploring how artists across generations have drawn inspiration from external forces, challenging the notion of singular artistic authorship. The show builds on Surrealism's interest in mediums and receivers, particularly Hélène Smith, the Spiritualist medium and Surrealists' muse of automatic writing. It traces dictation through mediumship, automatism, poetic composition, hermetic research, and theosophical inquiry. The exhibition argues that dictation is a missing term in modernist art history, highlighting artists who turned away from individual subjectivity toward shared or displaced authorship. The show includes historical and contemporary figures who extended the Surrealist tradition, giving form to signals from beyond this world.