Screening: Field Visits for Chelsea Manning (2014)

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Friday 27th of November 20:15
Screening
Field Visits for Chelsea Manning (2014)

Lance Wakeling

Field Visits for Chelsea Manning is a first-person travelogue based on the places where Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst, was detained. The one-hour video takes place in Kuwait, Virginia, Kansas, and Maryland. Using the concept of mosaic theory — an American intelligence-gathering technique, which employs the collection of disparate pieces of information in order to craft a larger picture or narrative — the video compiles a personal and imagined geography of the areas surrounding Manning’s geo-detention sites.

http://lancewakeling.com/

Lance Wakeling is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY. His recent videos include “Field Visits for Chelsea Manning,” “Views of a Former Verizon Building” and “A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable.” Using the genre of the first-person travelogue, Wakeling’s videos measure the movement of his body against the speed of information. His artworks have been exhibited at Serpentine, London; BAM, Brooklyn; Union Docs, Brooklyn, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Supplement Gallery, London; NiMK, Amsterdam; LUX, London; and Future Gallery, Berlin. He is the recipient of a 2014 Rhizome Commission and a 2014 Media Arts Assistance Fund grant from Wave Farm.

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Soldiers fire artillery for a salute to the Union on July 4th, 2013, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Chelsea Manning was detained.
Soldiers fire artillery for a salute to the Union on July 4th, 2013, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Chelsea Manning was detained.

 

A barbershop quartet dressed as prisoners entertain guests at a saloon in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, also known as "Prison City."
A barbershop quartet dressed as prisoners entertain guests at a saloon in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, also known as “Prison City.”
The sun sets on the Arabian Gulf in Kuwait on Liberation Day, 2014.
The sun sets on the Arabian Gulf in Kuwait on Liberation Day, 2014.
During a Civil War re-enactment in Mannassas, Virginia, a man photographs the set of a burning train car.
During a Civil War re-enactment in Mannassas, Virginia, a man photographs the set of a burning train car.
On the day Manning announced her new life as Chelsea, I found this sign on the side of Highway 295 in Fort Meade, Maryland, where the trial United States vs Manning had just ended.
On the day Manning announced her new life as Chelsea, I found this sign on the side of Highway 295 in Fort Meade, Maryland, where the trial United States vs Manning had just ended.

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Freitag 27. November 2015, 20:15
Filmscreening
Field Visits for Chelsea Manning (2014)

Lance Wakeling

Eine faszinierende Arbeit einer globalen Gefängnis-Psychogeografie. Der Film „Field Visits for Chelsea Manning“ erkundet die umliegenden Gebiete der Orten, wo die ehemalige Millitär-Analytikerin Chelsea Manning vor ihrer Gerichtsverhandlung für die Veröffentlichung von Geheimdokumenten auf Wikileaks, inhaftiert wurde. Die Erzählung verfolgt die Spuren Chelsea Mannings von Kuwait nach Virginia, Kansas, und Maryland. Diese Abhandlung webt Bilder von Landschaften, Ausschnitte des Gerichtsverfahren und Erzählungen von Aufsichtspersonal zusammen. Wir freuen uns, dass wir das exklusive Recht des Autors erhalten haben, diesen Film zu zeigen.

Lance Wakeling lebt und arbeitet in Brooklyn, NY. Seine aktuellen Videos sind “Field Visits for Chelsea Manning”, “Views of a Former Verizon Building” and “A Tour of the AC-1 Transatlantic Submarine Cable.”
Anhand des Genres der Reiseerzählung in der Ich-Form messen Wakelings Videos die Bewegung seines Körpers im Vergleich mit der Geschwindigkeit der Information. Seine Arbeiten wurden in Serpentine, London; BAM, Brooklyn; Union Docs, Brooklyn, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Supplement Gallery, London; NiMK, Amsterdam; LUX, London; und Future Gallery, Berlin gezeigt. 2014 erhielt er durch die Rhizome Commission eine Media Arts Untersützungsförderung von Wave Farm.

http://lancewakeling.com/

http://lancewakeling.com/