Rare Earth, 2014
Installation view: Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, 2015, Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Collection
A mural painting, three drawings pencil on paper, one drawing rotring on paper, and two digital prints
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Suzanne Treister’s Rare Earth mandala is a cosmological diagram tracing the scientific history and industrial, medical, and military applications of rare earth elements as well as the cultural and philosophical impact of these applications. An epic mapping of how rare earth elements underpin our contemporary world, the diagram is both pedagogical and visionary.
Rare Earth, 2014 has been commissioned by TBA21 for the exhibition Rare Earth at TBA21-Augarten.
Suzanne Treister was born in 1958 in London, where she lives and works. Employing media such as video, the Internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing, and watercolor, Treister’s work engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity, and knowledge, often relating to issues of new technologies. Usually spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military, or paranormal. Treister studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, London (1978–81) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981–82). Recent solo exhibitions include Post- Surveillance Art, Maggs Counterculture, Maggs Gallery, London (2014), HEXEN 2.0, P∙P∙O∙W, New York; Grimoire du futur, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France (2013); HEXEN 2.0, Science Museum, London, and Hartware Medien- KunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany; and The Real Truth: A World’s Fair, Raven Row, London (2012).
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Suzanne Treister’s Rare Earth mandala is a cosmological diagram tracing the scientific history and industrial, medical, and military applications of rare earth elements as well as the cultural and philosophical impact of these applications. An epic mapping of how rare earth elements underpin our contemporary world, the diagram is both pedagogical and visionary.
Rare Earth, 2014 has been commissioned by TBA21 for the exhibition Rare Earth at TBA21-Augarten.
Suzanne Treister was born in 1958 in London, where she lives and works. Employing media such as video, the Internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing, and watercolor, Treister’s work engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity, and knowledge, often relating to issues of new technologies. Usually spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military, or paranormal. Treister studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, London (1978–81) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981–82). Recent solo exhibitions include Post- Surveillance Art, Maggs Counterculture, Maggs Gallery, London (2014), HEXEN 2.0, P∙P∙O∙W, New York; Grimoire du futur, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France (2013); HEXEN 2.0, Science Museum, London, and Hartware Medien- KunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany; and The Real Truth: A World’s Fair, Raven Row, London (2012).