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HEXEN
2.0 Suzanne Treister 2009-2011
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.
HEXEN
2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal
Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the
foundations for a general science of the workings of the human
mind. The project simultaneously looks at diverse philosophical,
literary and political responses to advances in technology including
the claims of Anarcho-Primitivism and Post Leftism, Theodore Kaczynski/The
Unabomber, Technogaianism and Transhumanism, and traces precursory
ideas such as those of Thoreau, Warren, Heidegger and Adorno in
relation to visions of utopic and dystopic futures from science-fiction
literature and film.
Based
on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections
of the future, and consisting of 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.
Also see: essay
by Lars Bang Larsen
Additional print works |
HEXEN 2.0 TOUR VENUES:
Science
Museum, London
7 March - 1 May 2012
Installation
views
WORK, London
(HEXEN 2.0/Literature works)
16 March - 12 May 2012
Installation
views
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV),
Dortmund, Germany
21 April - 22 July 2012
Installation
views
Secession,
Vienna, Austria
(selected works)
29 June - 2 September 2012
Installation
views
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany
11 July - 21 August 2012
Installation
views
Laura
Mars Grp, Berlin
(HEXEN 2.0/Literature works)
1-29 September 2012
La
Maison Populaire, Montreuil, Paris, France
(selected works)
2 October -15 December 2012
Installation
views
Galerie
Pankow, Berlin, Germany
(selected works)
28 Nov 2012 - 20 Jan 2013
P.P.O.W,
New York, USA
17 January - 16 February 2013
Installation
views
Hamburger
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
(selected works)
Jan 26 - 14 April 2013
Installation
views
Espace
multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France
24 March - 31 August 2013
Installation
views
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
(selected
works)
Installation
views
26 April - 1 July 2013
Kunsthal
Aarhus, Denmark
Installation
views
20 Sept - 31 Dec 2013
Cleveland
Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
(8 Nov - 18 Dec 2013)
Installation
views
Department
of History of Art
University College London, England
HEXEN
2.0/Tarot readings
22 January 2014
YGREC
Gallery, Paris, France
(selected works)
(April 4th - May 31 2014)
BLACKMODULAR, Sydney, Australia
(selected works)
Installation view
June 2014
Sarah
Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA
(selected works)
(9 Oct - 6Nov 2014)
Biennale
de Montréal, Canada
(22 Oct 2014 - 4 Jan 2015)
Installation
views
Shanghai
Biennale, China
(selected works)
Installation
views
(Nov 22 2014 - March 31 2015)
fig-2, ICA, London England
Installation views
(April 6 - 12 2015)
Test
Exposure, 16th WRO Media Art Biennale,
WRO Art Center, Wroclaw,
Poland
(selected works)
Installation
views
(May 13 - Sept 2015)
iMAL, Center for digital cultures and technology, Brussels, Belgium
Installation views
(May 14 - June 14 2015)
Island - Adaptation II, g39 Cardiff, Wales
(selected works)
(3rd July – 12th September 2015)
Aksioma Project Space,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Installation
views
(2 - 25 September 2015)
Infosphere, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,
Germany
(selected works)
Installation
views
(4 September 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
Temporary Gallery, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst,
Cologne, Germany
(selected works)
Installation
views
(5 September – 20 December 2015)
EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
(selected works)
Installation
views
(17 September - 24 October 2015)
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV),
Dortmund, Germany
(selected works)
Installation
views
14 Nov 2015 - 6 March 2016
HEXEN 2.0 in Virtual Reality
by Alexandre Girardeau
view video demo
Casal Solleric, Fundació Palma Espai d’Art,
Mallorca, Islas Baleares
(selected works)
Installation
views
(14 July – 18 August 2016)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
(Tarot works)
Installation
views
(10 September 2016 - 26 February 2017)
Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
(selected wotks in the exhibition The Fevered Specters of Art)
(10 Nov 2016 – 29 Jan 2017)
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
(selected works in the exhibition The Museum of Rhythm)
(25 November 2016 – February 2017)
Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia
(selected works in the exhibition New World Order)
Installation
views
(10 December 2016 – 18 February 2017)
Stuk Kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium
(selected works in the exhibition Artefact: the Act of Magic)
Installation
views
(21 February - 9 March 2017)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
(selected works in the exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70)
(17 June - 9 October 2017)
P.P.O.W., New York, USA
(selected works in the exhibition Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World)
(June 29 – August 18 2017
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
(selected works in the exhibition &)
(30 June – 5 November 2017)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
(selected works in the exhibition Open Codes, Living in Digital Worlds)
Installation
views
(20 October 2017 – 27 May 2018)
Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
(selected works in the Festival international des Arts multimédia GAMERZ 13ème édition)
Installation
video
Installation
views
(3-12 November 2017)
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
(selected works in the exhibition Revolution: Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970 dai Beatles a Woodstock, a V&A touring exhibition)
(2 December 2017 – 4 April 2018)
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria
(selected works in the exhibition Magic Circle)
Installation
views
(23 March - 13 May 2018)
Busan Biennale 2018, Busan, South Korea
(selected works)
Installation
views
(September 8 - November 11 2018)
The Wende Museum, Culver City, California, USA
(selected works in the exhibition, The War of Nerves: Psychological Landscape of the Cold War)
(Sept 16 2018 - Jan 13 2019)
NRW-FORUM Düsseldorf, Germany
(selected works in the exhibition Im Zweifel für den Zweifel)
Installation
views
(21 Sept – 18 Nov 2018)
Thameside Studios Gallery, London England
(selected works in the exhibition, Ocular Inc)
(12-28 April 2019)
Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Australia
(selected works in the exhibition, You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70)
(27 April – 25 Aug 2019)
Supernormal Festival, Braziers House, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, England
(selected works and group tarot readings)
(August 2-4 2019)
Installation
views
Austrian Cultural Forum, London, England
(selected works in the exhibition, Nothing Less! Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage)
(10 Oct 2019 - 31 January 2020)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
(selected works in the exhibition, Mud Muses, A Rant About Technology)
(12 October 2019 – 12 Jan 2020
Installation
views
Science Gallery London, England
(HEXEN 2.0 group tarot reading)
1 November 2019
view photos and report
Ljubljana Design Biennial, Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana, Slovenia
(selected works in the exhibition BIO26| Common Knowledge)
(14 November 2019 – 9 February 2020)
ZAK (Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst), Spandau Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
(selected works in the exhibition disturbance: witch)
10 Sept - 27 Dec 2020
Installation
views
Schirn Kunshtalle, Frankfurt, Germany
(HEXEN2.0/Tarot works in the exhibition, We Never Sleep)
24 September 2020 - 10 January 2021
Warburg Institute, London, England
(HEXEN2.0/Tarot reading as part of
Atlas, Atlas - a double book launch)
3 December 2020
Watch video and view tarot spreads
Haus der Statistik, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
(selected works in the exhibition, Calculation Control: Netzkunst und Kybernetik)
April/May 2021
Installation
views
Espace multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France
(selected works in the exhibition, Constellations #2)
(4-29 May 2021)
Installation
views
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
(selected works in the exhibition, The Earth is Flat Again
24 September 2021 – 16 January 2022
Seventeen, London, England
(HEXEN 2.0/Tarot deck in the exhibition, Memeplex™)
11 December 2021 - 5 Feb 2022
Installation
view
Somerset House, London, England
(HEXEN 2.0/Tarot deck in the exhibition,The Horror Show!)
27 Oct 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
(selected works in the exhibition Vertical Atlas
27 Oct – 27 Nov 2022
power Power, MAW (Middlesbrough Art Weekender) Festival, Middlesbrough, England (Tarot works)
22-25 September 2022
Installation
view
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
(HEXEN 2.0/Tarot/Swords in the exhibition Rituals of Devotion)
March 10 – May 27, 2023
Installation
view
MACBA Chapel, Barcelona, Spain
(HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in the event Invocations)
21-22 June 2023
ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
(HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in the exhibition, THE COSMOS WITHIN)
2 December 2023 - 7th April 2024
THE RYDER, Madrid, Spain
Selected HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in solo exhibition
12 Sept – 9 November 2024
Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in the exhibition, Artists’ Tarot and the Archive
October 2024 - March 2025
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in the exhibition, Tarot, una lectura desde el arte
10 October 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
The Warburg Institute, London, England
HEXEN 2.0/Tarot in the exhibition, Tarot: Origins & Afterlives
Jan – Apr 2025
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