Susan Collins is one of the 1990s pioneering artists whose practices ensured the importance of electronic media as contemporary artistic practice. Working with computer-based transmission and installation, her practice explores the minutiae of time in relation to place and has been influenced by astronomy and meteorology. LAND is a selection of prints from a surveillance camera installed on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and facing the Palestinian West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains. The camera recorded the view pixel-by-pixel, line-by-line, and over seasons, with each print representing around twelve hours - a reference to ancient Hebrew, Halachic time and division of daylight. Rising Tides is another long term project recording the ebb and flow of both Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River and London’s River Thames, juxtaposed. Both suggest much while seemingly “doing” little: reflecting upon the powerful vastness and rhythms of the earth where human intervention is a small but colonizing presence.

BAB 2024 acknowledges British Council Thailand for their support with the participation of this artist.