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Editor
Karen Downey
Contributors
Ciaran Carson, Brian Dillon, Martha Langford, Slavka Sverakova, Marina Warner
May 2009
Paperback
144 pages
170 b/w and colour ills
28.0 x 21.5 cm
11.0 x 8.5 in
ISBN13: 978 1 906155 78 0
Remote Viewing praise from Art World!
Remote Viewing is hailed as a "carefully designed monograph" with an "ingenious layout" in the current issue of Art World. Susan MacWilliam's exhibition at the Venice Biennale is also one of the editors' highlights.
Commonsensual & Remote Viewing in Foto8!
According to leading photojournalism magazine Foto8, "Commonsensual is the fullest survey of Luxemburg's photography and, as such, her most complete and compelling account".
Images from Remote Viewing also occupy the two central pages.
Susan MacWilliam Remote Viewing
Incorporating research in the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing, Susan MacWilliam’s work explores ideas about the visible and the invisible, about vision and perception, reality and illusion.
Through the use of video, photography and sculptural installation, Susan MacWilliam has created pieces of work on wide scoping aspects of the paranormal including accounts of materializing mediums and clairvoyants, optograms, trance, x-ray vision and dermo-optical perception, exploring specific myths and histories, challenging ideas about presentation and the credibility of an image.
Susan MacWilliam: Remote Viewing features the artist’s most recent work and her research into mediums, hysteria and psychology. Organised into three main sections the book looks extensively at her recent work including the three pieces being put forward for the Venice Biennale 2009; F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N, Eileen and Dermo Optics.
With supporting essays from a collection of prestigious writers and experts in the field, including poet Ciaran Carson, Venice Biennale curator Karen Downey, art writer Slavka Sverakova, Brian Dillon and Martha Langford, and excerpts from correspondences with parapsychologists, Remote Viewing is an extensive, in-depth look into MacWilliam’s artistic practice and the inspiration behind these major projects.
