The whistleblowing news site Wikileaks is partnering with the London-based arts organisation a/political and the hacktivist Wau Holland Foundation in Hamburg to present an exhibition next month which will include a physical copy of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables it leaked in 2010.
The leak, widely known as “cablegate”, began on 28 November 2010 when Wikileaks began releasing 250,000 diplomatic cables gathered from US embassies around the world, including logs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which exposed human rights abuses. Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange was shortly after arrested on espionage charges in London and remains in Belmarsh Prison facing extradition to the US where he could receive 175 years in prison under the Espionage Act.
Titled States of Violence, the aim of the London show (24 March-8 April) is to “unite the people who support both Wikileaks and Julian Assange”, according to Joseph Farrell, a Wikileaks ambassador, and Chloe Schlosberg, an art consultant at the Wau Holland Foundation.
Describing Wikileaks as “a persecuted organisation”, Farrell and Schlosberg say: “Julian Assange is sitting in a maximum security prison for publishing the truth about war and government corruption. As a result we understand more than most what it means to live and work under insidious and secretive states of violence."
They add: “We have had great success...
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