SUSAN ASKEW (alisases – Nasus Y Ram and Weksa Nosmada) was born and grew up on a farm in North Yorkshire and can trace animal farming on both sides of her family for generations. This experience influenced her to focus on violence to the farmed animal in her work. She takes a hopeful/utopian radical futurist approach in which future humans look back with incomprehension at their treatment of the farmed nonhuman.
The Museum of Human Violence is a central concept in her work. Opened in 2065, the museum houses artefacts from the past, as well as organises events in the future that have the function of both remembering and honouring the victims of past violences, and celebrating peace in 2065: https://themuseumofhumanviolence.com
After 30 years as a lecturer in Education at UCL, Susan became a student herself on the MA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art. On graduating in 2023 she founded Critical Edge Collective. She is now a candidate for the artistic practice-based Ph.D at Kingston University, and founded SEED_2065 in 2025.
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