The HEXEN 2.0 Tarot features 78 alchemical drawings that depict the interconnected histories of the computer and the Internet, cybernetics and the counterculture, science-fiction and scientific projections of the future, government and military research programmes, social engineering, and ideas of the control society.
After a decade out of print, this rare tarot deck, renowned for its unique vision and prophetic themes, returns in a highly anticipated new edition.
The HEXEN 2.0 Tarot features 78 alchemical drawings that depict the interconnected histories of the computer and the Internet, cybernetics and the counterculture, science-fiction and scientific projections of the future, government and military research programmes, social engineering, and ideas of the control society. These are presented alongside diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to the advance of technology, including the claims of anarcho-primitivism, technogaianism, and transhumanism.
Through representing and re-examining these histories and subjects holistically within an alchemical framework, the HEXEN 2.0 Tarot transports us to a hypnotic, mesmerising space where a reader, or a group of readers working collaboratively, can use the cards to imagine and discuss visions for alternative futures.
“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.” - New York Times
“‘HEXEN 2.0’—the work and our attempts to engage with it—reminds us just how much of our world remains beyond our grasp.” - Artforum
“These drawings are the products of meticulous research…You’ll enjoy trying to unpick each diagram and understanding the links between the statements and characters in each work – trust us, it’s not easy! The works here are truly fascinating and will appeal to both art lovers and those interested in technology and its origins.” - The Londonist
“Since the genealogies that Treister deals with have so far remained largely untold, it is only appropriate that she should employ an epistemologically virgin format. If historians haven’t got these connections and events on their radar so far, then one shouldn’t hesitate to use a new radar, a new device, a new unit that may capture and recognise historical reality.” - Lars Bang Larsen
“…like something William Blake (Five of Wands) might have produced if he’d been looking over his shoulder instead of into his own soul.” - The New York Observer
Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982) and is based in London and the French Pyrennes, having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister's work has engaged with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert forces at work in the world. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.
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