Prophetic Dreaming
cosmogenesis (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-0687657-4-2 (ISBN)
Description
Prophetic Dreaming is a major survey of Suzanne Treister, a pioneer of digital and multidisciplinary art whose work connects technology, power, belief and imagined futures. Coinciding with her first major UK retrospective at Modern Art Oxford, the book follows Treister from early paintings and Fictional Videogame Stills to the complex cosmologies of HEXEN 2.0 and HEXEN 5.0. Spotlighting major seminal artworks HFT The Gardener, SURVIVOR (F) and TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS, and the long-running Time Travelling adventures of Treister's alter-ego Rosalind Brodsky. Richly illustrated, with new essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Patricia Dominguez and Val Ravaglia, Prophetic Dreaming maps the occult life of computation and offers tools for thinking beyond the chaotic present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
With flaps
Illustrations
full colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1028 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0687657-4-2 (9781068765742)
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Lars Bang Larsen is a writer, curator, and art historian, and Head of Art & Research at AHC (Art Hub Copenhagen). He has researched the histories of politics and aesthetics across modern and contemporary art and in their encounters with technologies and countercultures. Patricia Dominguez Claro (b. 1984, Lives and works in Puchuncavi, Chile)
Her inquiries focus on tracing digital and spiritual relationships between living species in an increasingly corporate cosmos, combining experimental research on ethnobotany, extractivism and healing practices through the artistic language of spiritual fiction. She sees her work as a stomach that digests reality and recodes it into a planetary prayer.
Her work has been exhibited at Modern Monday MoMA, Screen Series New Museum, Gasworks London, Wellcome Collection, Gwangju Biennale, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Transmediale Berlin, Pinacoteca Sao Paulo, and FLORA ars+natura, among others. Her work was recently included at "Vitamin V, Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art", Phaidon Press (2025). Dominguez is also the founder of Studio Vegetalista, an experimental platform for ethnobotanical research.
VAL RAVAGLIA is Curator, Displays and International Art at Tate Modern, London, and Curator of Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet. They assisted with the complete rehang of Tate Modern's Collection Displays in 2015-16 and have curated numerous collection display rooms since 2012. They co-curated the Tate Modern exhibition A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-2023) and led the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art. They were the Assistant Curator for the 2017 Turbine Hall Commission by SUPERFLEX and Tate Modern's Nam June Paik retrospective. Their research interests include the intersections of art, science, and technology, as well as Jessie Robertson is Curator of Exhibitions and Live Programmes at Modern Art Oxford. She has curated exhibitions and new commissions by Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and Valerie Asiimwe Amani and is leading on Prophetic Dreaming. Alongside this, she devises and delivers the live programme at Modern Art Oxford, focusing on interdisciplinary practice and platforming emerging performance in the city. As Curator (2023-present) and Assistant Curator (2019-2023) at Modern Art Oxford, Robertson has worked on exhibitions, publications and residencies for artists including Belkis Ayon, Jesse Darling, Carey Young, Marina Abramovic and Ruth Asawa.
Her inquiries focus on tracing digital and spiritual relationships between living species in an increasingly corporate cosmos, combining experimental research on ethnobotany, extractivism and healing practices through the artistic language of spiritual fiction. She sees her work as a stomach that digests reality and recodes it into a planetary prayer.
Her work has been exhibited at Modern Monday MoMA, Screen Series New Museum, Gasworks London, Wellcome Collection, Gwangju Biennale, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Transmediale Berlin, Pinacoteca Sao Paulo, and FLORA ars+natura, among others. Her work was recently included at "Vitamin V, Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art", Phaidon Press (2025). Dominguez is also the founder of Studio Vegetalista, an experimental platform for ethnobotanical research.
VAL RAVAGLIA is Curator, Displays and International Art at Tate Modern, London, and Curator of Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet. They assisted with the complete rehang of Tate Modern's Collection Displays in 2015-16 and have curated numerous collection display rooms since 2012. They co-curated the Tate Modern exhibition A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-2023) and led the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art. They were the Assistant Curator for the 2017 Turbine Hall Commission by SUPERFLEX and Tate Modern's Nam June Paik retrospective. Their research interests include the intersections of art, science, and technology, as well as Jessie Robertson is Curator of Exhibitions and Live Programmes at Modern Art Oxford. She has curated exhibitions and new commissions by Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and Valerie Asiimwe Amani and is leading on Prophetic Dreaming. Alongside this, she devises and delivers the live programme at Modern Art Oxford, focusing on interdisciplinary practice and platforming emerging performance in the city. As Curator (2023-present) and Assistant Curator (2019-2023) at Modern Art Oxford, Robertson has worked on exhibitions, publications and residencies for artists including Belkis Ayon, Jesse Darling, Carey Young, Marina Abramovic and Ruth Asawa.