![]() ![]() Seemingly disparate historical dots in a kind of alchemical hypertext. Tapping into the dynamic potential of occult knowledge forms to connect In HEXEN 2.0, Treister works through the format of the tarot card, thereby But a key essay, by art historian Lars Bang Larsen, is still available on Treister’s overwhelming website- here’s a direct link. There was an accompanying Hexen 2.0 book-similarly long gone. However, for Tarot purposes, we can go with Aristotle’s use of hexis to indicate a relatively stable arrangement of parts. “Hexen,” by the way, is derived from the ancient Greek term hexis, which apparently is very difficult to define in modern terms. They are long gone, of course, except for those acquired by wise collectors. The original drawings for the Hexen Tarot-which comprises both arcanas-are displayed in a complex installation that also includes a video “seance,” and elaborate historical diagrams like this one:īut in addition-the Hexen Tarot itself was produced as a usable deck, and sold at various galleries where the show was installed. The connections drawn within and among the cards are so mind-boggling to contemplate that it seems entirely appropriate to comprehend them within a magical system like the tarot. ![]() Treister delivers her thinking not in a footnote-larded treatise but in the form of a set of tarot cards, each illustrating in cartoon drawings and handwritten text a person, idea or event that changed the course of 20th-century history. The stock market’s feedback-induced ups and downs would be an example. main theme is control - social, mental, technological and otherwise - exerted most powerfully and pervasively by means of feedback mechanisms. ![]() The British artist Suzanne T reister has a unifying theory about everything that would concern anyone worried about the current state of global affairs. Beginning with-these comments from a 2013 New York Times review of the Hexen installation, then showing at a New York gallery: I’m still trying to fathom the extent (and intent) of Suzanne Treister’s Hexen 2.0 project, but I’ll tell you what I’ve figured out so far. Hexen 2.0 Tarot, laid out in a public reading about global futures. ![]()
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