
© Suzanne Treister, "Rosalind Brodsky at
a corporate meeting, wearing her time travelling costume to visit the Russian
Revolution"
"No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky" CD-ROM,
published by Black Dog Publishing. ISBN: 1 901033 66
X.
Suzanne Treister (°London - 1958). She was
based in Australia from 1992 to 1998. Since then she has divided her time
between New York, London and Sydney. Treister studied painting at St Martins
and Chelsea Schools of Art in London and has shown in Europe, the USA, Asia
and Australia since 1981. From 1991 her practice incorporated digital imaging
and since 1995 has expanded to include video, object based, multimedia and
online projects. She was a founder member of several collaborative organisations,
1991: NIH ('Nothing is {Hidden}' ) London/New York based, 1992: PI ('Presumed
Innocent') Adelaide/New York based, and in 2000 she founded the 'International
Corporation of Lost Structures' with an international membership - www.icols.org
(in development).
In 1995 Treister created the heteronymic identity, Rosalind Brodsky, whose
history is explored in the CD ROM, 'No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with
Rosalind Brodsky', which has been exhibited internationally at many new media
festivals and was published with a book in 1999 by Black Dog Publishing, London.
ISBN: 1 901033 66 X.
ensemble.va.com.au/Treister
"No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky" CD-ROM,
published by Black Dog Publishing. ISBN: 1 901033 66 X.
This CD ROM is an interactive investigation into the life of Rosalind Brodsky
(with whom I share similar Anglo/Eastern European/Jewish roots), a delusional
time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics
and Advanced Time Interventionality in the 21st century. Your journey takes
the form of a tour organised by the Institute in memory of Brodsky's contribution
to time travel research.
Starting at the Institute in 2058, the year of Brodsky's death, you are shown
an introductory movie before entering Brodsky's study, concealed behind a
memorial wall. From here you may travel to her home in Bavaria and journey
to her Satellite spy probe, access her electronic time travelling diary and
discover the time travelling costumes and attaché cases in her wardrobe,
through which you take the lift down to the Clinics from where you time travel
to the homes of Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan and Kristeva with whom Brodsky has
undergone analysis, paid for with the profits from sales of her feature vibrators,
album sales of her band ('Rosalind Brodsky and the Satellites of Lvov') and
her time travelling cookery TV show.
This work creates a space that negotiates issues of insanity and humour, fetishism
and sexuality, identity and technology, in relation to personal histories/fictions
and histories of the twentieth century.
In the process of making my work I use:
software; Photoshop, Director, Sound Edit, Premiere, Media 100, Peak, Player
Pro, After Effects, Word, Dreamweaver, Gifbuilder, Flash and QuarkXpress.
I also use paint, metal, wood, clay, found items and other media in installations.