SUSAN MACWILLIAM
REMOTE VIEWING
Edited by Karen Downey, with writers Ciaran Carson, Martha Langford, Slavka Sverakova, Brian Dillon, Marina Warner. Published by Black Dog, Designed by Pony Ltd.
REMOTE VIEWING documents the three video installations exhibited by Susan MacWilliam at the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009, when the artist represented Northern Ireland with her solo ehibition REMOTE VIEWING comprising the works, Dermo Optics, Eileen and F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N.
"In the depths of a Parisian cellar, Madame Yvonne Duplessis conducts fingertip vision experiments; New York in the 1950s and Irish-born medium Eileen J Garrett is exploring the psychic potential of LSD with Aldous Huxley; Winnipeg in the 1930s and the name of the French Astronomer and psychical researcher, Flammarion, appears as a teleplasm on the back of a séance cabinet."
The book also features an index of earlier works.
With special thanks to Parapsychology Foundation, New York and Archives and Special Collections, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Featured in Art World's 'Three of the best - Venice Biennale monographs', Jun/Jul 2009.