POST-SURVEILLANCE ART

AN EXHIBITION UNDER THE AEGIS OF MAGGS COUNTERCULTURE. 11-24 JUNE. 10.30-1700. MONDAY-FRIDAY. OR BY APPOINTMENT. MAGGS GALLERY. 50 HAYS MEWS, MAYFAIR, LONDON W1J 5QJ. Maggs Gallery presents 'Post-Surveillance Art', a series of new works by Suzanne Treister navigating the post-Snowden age which simultaneously critique and celebrate a new paradigm whilst anticipating future modalities. The term 'Post-Surveillance Art' was coined by Suzanne Treister on 9th January 2014. There is as yet no reference to this term or its meaning on the internet. 'What has altered for me post Snowden, is not an awareness and negotiation of a changed condition, but the knowledge that now almost everybody else knows something which was clear as day if you did a bit of research, and it's great to no longer be called a conspiracy theorist." Suzanne Treister 2014 'The brain on anxiety creates beauty in which we recline on rainbow pillows, smoking our hookahs” Richard Thieme, commentary on the works, 2014