About the event
Recent oppositional movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter have demonstrated how acts of cultural-political resistance and commemoration are closely linked to questions of space and public access.
Lance Wakeling’s Field Visits for Chelsea Manning, 2014 is a first-person travelogue that maps the surrounding areas where former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was held in Kuwait, Virginia, Kansas, and Maryland. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Lance Wakeling, Rachel Valinsky and Wilson Sherwin.
These screenings, discussions and the conference will explore how an image, an art object, and/or performance can not only refer to some past occurrence, but can also perform and project its agency into a world beyond its initial presentation. How does one’s position vis-à-vis such struggles enable or obstruct our ability to see, read, or understand art? How does alterity intersect and illuminate challenges to frameworks of power, or reconfigure our approaches to pictorial, choreographic, and/or physical space? These questions have been at the fore of national and international politics and are relevant to artists across media ranging from painting to performance.
Cosponsored by the PhD Program in Art History, and the James Gallery at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
