“Survivor (F) started off as a novel about an artist who was building a spaceship in an Estonian forest while his girlfriend in London was writing prose from the point of view of an algorithm.”
– British artist
Suzanne Treister, on the origins of her
ongoing series of “visions of a post-futuristic sublime.” “In gaps between long projects I sometimes start to write a novel,” Treister tells Modern Art Oxford curator Jessie Robertson in advance of her “
Prophetic Dreaming” retrospective. “I’ll work out the plot and write a few chapters and a lot of notes, and then I’ll stop because I’ve got an idea for a new art project.”
