Aug 23 2024 36 mins 1
Over the years, Trevor Paglen has documented operations, locations and activities that were meant to remain hidden from the public. He has tracked and photographed the world of secret satellites, flew in a helicopter over the NSA headquarters with the express purpose of taking aerial photographs of it and, in the early 2000s, investigated the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” programme which consisted of kidnapping, disappearing and torturing people that the agency accused of terrorism.
The artist, author and geographer discusses suspicious activities in the night sky, classified programmes and the weaponisation of human perception in the context of military and civilian influence operations.
Additional content
Trevor Paglen
https://paglen.studio
Doty
https://paglen.studio/2023/05/10/doty
Trevor Paglen, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World, 2008 (Melville House)
https://paglen.studio/2020/04/22/symbology-patches
COLOPHON
Host: Régine Debatty
Guest: Trevor Paglen
Recording: Régine Debatty
Music, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar
The Future Behind Us podcast series
Curated by: Régine Debatty
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by: Marcela Okretič
Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024
Part of:
PXXP•XXV: Speculation and Decay
Conceived and co-organised by:
Aksioma
For:
Pixxelpoint – 25th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices
Produced and co-organised by:
Nova Gorica Arts Centre
In the framework of:
GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025
Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica
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