Spent tonight at a private view of a new show by Suzanne Treister in Chelsea. I have an artist friend from Australia who's staying in London for a few months thanks to winning an residency from the Australia Council. Suzanne is a friend of a friend of this friend so we all went along together, had some free wine and ate good Cypriot food afterwards.

In 1995 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.

HEXEN2039 charts Brodsky's scientific research towards the development of new mind control technologies for the British Military. This work uncovers or constructs 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), in light of alarming new research in contemporary neuroscience...

Lots of intricate and interconnecting drawings and sketches, tiny handwriting and the overwhelming sense that this was just the tip of the iceberg of a really quite interesting and involved conspiracy theory about the involvement of the occult in the military. There must be some kind of written thesis somewhere, because the detail is phenomenal. Or maybe a whole library of theses.

(ok, I didn't actually post this until Wed morning, which is bad and wrong, but I swear it was written in my head and I didn't get the chance to physically post until the morning after)