Annely Juda Fine Art is delighted to announce that Tate have acquired HEXEN 2.0 (2009-2011), a major work by Suzanne Treister.
Based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future, this extensive project is comprised of 167 parts including alchemical diagrams, a Tarot deck, photo-text works, a video and a website. HEXEN 2.0 offers a space where one may use the works as a tool to envision possible alternative futures.
HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.
Based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future, this extensive project is comprised of 167 parts including alchemical diagrams, a Tarot deck, photo-text works, a video and a website. HEXEN 2.0 offers a space where one may use the works as a tool to envision possible alternative futures.
HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.
April 6, 2024
