March 03, 2007
16 Beaver Group
Ashley Hunt
16 Beaver Group :: Ashley Hunt - Representations Of The Erased :: Monday 03.05.07 :: What: Talk / Discussion / Screening :: Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor :: When: 7:30 pm :: Who: Free and open to all.
Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. Among his interests are structures that allow people to accumulate power and those which keep others from getting power, while learning from the ways people come to know, respond to and conceive of themselves within these structures. Rather than seeing art and activism as two exclusive spheres of practice, he approaches them as intertwined, drawing upon the ideas of organizing and cultural theory alike — the theorizing and practices of one informing the other.
This has included investigations into the prison, the demise of welfare state institutions, war and disaster capitalism, documentary practices and political activism as a mode of representation. His primary work of the past eight years is organized under the umbrella of “The Corrections Documentary Project” (www.correctionsproject.com), which centers around the contemporary growth of prisons and their foundational role in today’s economic restructuring and the politics of race.
Hunt’s work has been screened and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as numerous grassroots and community based venues throughout the U.S. His writings have been published in Rethinking Marxism (‘06), the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (‘07 & ‘05), Sandbox Magazine (‘02) and at Artwurl.org (‘03–present). He is currently a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
Essays:
A Fortification of Race
Temporary Public Spaces
Interview: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ERASED by NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN and ASHLEY HUNT
Links
http://ashleyhuntwork.net
http://correctionsproject.com
http://iwontdrown.com
16 Beaver Group
16 Beaver Street, 4th / 5th fl.
New York, NY 10004
phone: 212.480.2099
TRAINS:
4,5 Bowling Green
R,W Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street
J,M Broad Street
1,9 South Ferry
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http://www.16beavergroup.org
Posted by jo at March 3, 2007 07:03 PM
