How will wars be fought in the future? And what does Stargate, the Brocken, and the British military have to do with each other?

Rosalind Brodsky lives in the year 2039 and is a time traveler for the "Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality" (IMATI) on behalf of the British military. Her mission is to obtain new information for research on non-lethal weapons. In doing so, she meets up with the American military, the CIA, and occultist groups with contact to politics, the Hollywood film industry as well as witchcraft. The groups and persons involved in a complicated network are linked to each other by way of the development of mind control technologies.

In 1995, the artist Suzanne Treister (born 1958, lives in London) created the fictitious figure Rosalind Brodsky who plays the main role in her science fiction adventures and becomes her alter-ego as it were. Suzanne Treister studied at St Martin's and Chelsea Schools of Art. She works in various media and materials; she draws, for example, creates video installations, and executes performances.

With the exhibition "Hexen 2039", the Kunstverein Langenhagen opens its annual program for 2008: "Can this be true?" Aspects of perception will be examined in five exhibitions. How do we perceive things and why do we believe that they are true? The Kunstverein Langenhagen will get to the bottom of these questions this year.

Suzanne Treister deals with the nexuses between identity, history, power, and hallucination in her works. How can we make meaning out of history and warfare? Did everything really happen as the books say they did or are there inconceivable links between people and places? How do historic moments render themselves authentic for us?

Steffi Prange
Translation: Dr. Michael Wolfson