Operation Swanlake is the documentation of a research project by the London Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality (IMATI) and a colleague involved in this, Rosalind Brodsky, which Suzanne Treister is now presenting to the Berlin public. IMATI is a government institute which develops technologies for time travel and tests their use for military purposes.
In order to develop a completely new kind of hardware generation, Operation Swanlake mobilises every conceivable resource, and obviously this also includes synaesthetic approaches to research and employs cultural-historical materials.
This means the exhibition not only enables the public to access information about links between military shipbuilding technologies and the work of Richard Wagner. Its visitors are also confronted with the universal military imperatives of our civilisation.
