Augmented Reality
theescapist.serpentinegalleries.org
This is a navigational tool for interdimensional travel to the archive of The Escapist located in The Museum of Black Hole Spacetime somewhere in outer space.
Upon entering the first Universe the user discovers 8 portals in the sky. Each of these may be downloaded and set as desktop images or wallpapers on computer screens, tablets and phones.
The Museum of Black Hole Spacetime floats between the 8 portals allowing access to the second Universe.
Inside the second Universe the sky clouds over with stars and a new set of portals appear. These portals allow access to the other 5 components of the project where the user may view the works sequentially.
The Museum of Black Hole Spacetime enables the user to return to the first Universe.
NB. Align the navigational circle with the centre of each portal or the moving museum, then tap or click in order to enter. This is designed for use with mobile devices and use with a wifi connection is recommended. Please make sure motion and orientation are enabled in your web browser settings. You may still enter using your desktop browser but will not be able to view as augmented reality.
Serpentine Launch Event with Ben Vickers, Chief Technology Officer, Serpentine Galleries and Michael Doser, senior research physicist, CERN, Geneva
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AUDIO RECORDING
Video interview with Ben Vickers, Chief Technology Officer, Serpentine Galleries
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Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Collective
Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Séance 1
 Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Séance 2
 Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Séance 3
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Publication
Suzanne Treister: From Survivor (F) To The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)
Published by Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books London September 2019
This publication brings together two interconnected art projects by Suzanne Treister, SURVIVOR (F) and a Serpentine Galleries commission, The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime), both of which explore imaginary scenarios of techno-human evolution over vast cosmological time spans.
Drawing on current research in artificial intelligence, cosmology and theoretical physics, the works take us on a beautiful and mind expanding journey through the possibilities of inter-dimensional time-travel, consciousness and the singularity.
Combining the ecstatic state of the mystical with the agnostic and iterative nature of the scientific, the projects take the form of alchemical diagrams, fashion designs for space travel, a comic strip, video, paintings and watercolours.
Since the late 1980s Suzanne Treister has engaged with emerging technologies and their relationship to society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity. Her work proposes alternative visions and interpretations of the histories that have formed our society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
This fully illustrated publication features essays by Maggie Roberts, Lucy A. Sames, Ben Vickers and HUO9000.
This publication and The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime) are commissions by Serpentine Galleries, London.
Dimensions 170mm (width) x 240mm (height) - with 256 images in full colour.
Serpentine galleries, London
The Tarot deck at the heart of British artist Suzanne Treister's Hexen 2.0 (2011) remains the single most evocative portal into the occult dynamics of modern cybernetic power. For her latest project, From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Space Time), Treister turns toward the (relative) light, crafting allegorical cosmograms that are equally apocalyptic, mystical, satirical, and technological. The show's catalog is a teaching of its own, a "Rainbow Ethnography of Shamanic Cyborgianism" that gorgeously combines posthuman metaphysics with the comic-book galactic, rendered in pencil, oil, and watercolor.
Erik Davis
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EXHIBITION VENUES
Serpentine Galleries, London, England
The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)
(19 September 2019 - ongoing)
Online in augmented reality
• view
AR screenshots
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England
From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)
(19 September - 2 November 2019)
• view
installation photos
• artist talk/installation video
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
(Selected works in the exhibition, Age of You)
(September 5 2019–January 5 2020)
Hayward Gallery Touring
(Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Collective in the exhibition, Not Without My Ghosts)
Drawing Room, London, England
(10 Sept - 1 Nov 2020)
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
(20 Nov 2020 – 14 March 2021)
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
(20 March – 25 June 2021)
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
(2021)
Queer Art Projects Digital
(Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Collective in the online exhibition, #WIP)
https://qap.digital/wip/
(15 Oct 2020 – 15 January 2021)
ECLIPSE, 7th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
(24 Sept - 28 Nov 2021)
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installation photos
Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland
(Selected works in the exhibition, R.A.W. or the sirens of Titan)
(3 April - 16 October 2022)
Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalières, France
Selected works in solo show, Habitable Futures
(May 24 - July 29 2023)
view installation
MUSEION - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Selected work in the exhibition: HOPE
(30 September 2023 – 1 April 2024)
14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art,
Shanghai, China
(9 November 2023 – March 31 2024)
ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Selected work in the exhibition: THE COSMOS WITHIN
(2 December 2023 - 7th April 2024)
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Selected works in the Klima Biennale exhibition, Genossin Sonne/Comrade Sun
(16 May – 1 September 2024)
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