[artinfo] HEXEN 2039 opening night invitation 7th November

[HEXEN2039]

      You are invited to the opening of HEXEN 2039 on Tuesday 7th
             November, 6 - 8.30pm at CHELSEA space, London

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                              HEXEN 2039

      New military-occult technologies for psychological warfare

                           SUZANNE TREISTER

                       Curated by Tania Nasielski

     HEXEN 2039 is a multi-venue project taking place across London
               between November 2006 and February 2007.

                          Archives - Drawings
                private view: 7th November, 6 - 8.30 pm
                     Nov 4 - Dec 16 CHELSEA space
                  16 John Islip St, London, SW1P 4JU
                        tues-fri 11-5, sat 10-4

                               Screening
                   Nov 9th, 6-8pm Warburg Institute
                      Woburn Sq, London WC1H OAB
            for booking please RSVP to: info at hexen2039.net

                        Cabinet H30, 5th Floor
                        Nov-Dec Science Museum
                   Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD

                      Case 20, Enlightenment Room
                            British Museum
                 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

                             Intervention
                   Through November Ognisko Polskie
                   55 Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2PN

                      science of spying programme
                     Feb 2007 Dana Centre, London
                   165 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5HE
                         www.danacentre.org.uk

     ‘HEXEN 2039 new military-occult technologies for psychological
                               warfare’
                   released by Black Dog Publishing
                           www.bdpworld.com

                              online at:
                           www.hexen2039.net

     HEXEN 2039 charts Brodsky’s para scientific research towards
     the development of new mind control technologies for the
     British Military through a series of drawings and diagrams, a
     video, website and site-specific interventions. This complex
     body of work uncovers links between conspiracy theories,
     occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry,
     British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, behaviour
     control experiments of the US Army and recent practices of its
     Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP) and
     new research in contemporary neuroscience.

     “HEXEN 2039 offers us an inverted, riotous version of a
     sociopolitical history that stands in kaleidoscopic opposition
     to the homogenised, narrow flatland of the capitalist march
     forward. Treister’s constructions belie a deeper mission: to
     explore how we make sense of history and the politics of war.”
     (Jane D. Marsching)

     In 1995 artist Suzanne Treister created the fictional alter
     ego Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveller who believes
     herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and
     Advanced Time Interventionality (IMATI) in the twenty-first
     century. Through Brodsky, Treister explores issues of history,
     global politics, religion, popular culture, sexuality,
     science, technology, the military and theories of the future.

     The Rosalind Brodsky project has been described by Art in
     America as “One of the most sustained fantasy trips of
     contemporary art”.

     Suzanne Treister studied in London at St Martin’s and Chelsea
     Schools of Art and currently lives and works in London and
     Berlin. Treister has shown internationally since 1981. Recent
     exhibitions include: ‘Operation Swanlake’ at Annely Juda Fine
     Art, London; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Gallery Skuc,
     Ljubljana; Magazin4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz; ‘(The
     World May Be) Fantastic’, 2002 Biennale of Sydney; ‘Don't Call
     it Performance’, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid and El
     Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.



     For further information please contact:
     Tania Nasielski: +44(0)7966471319
     Email: info at hexen2039.net

     Further information, press images and web version of the
     project at:
     http://www.hexen2039.net