----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Ashley Hunt and Taisha Paggett Give Public Lecture
March 24, 2006 5:00pm Free ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist based in Los Angeles who works with video, installation, and mapping to explore modes of learning and to generate public discourse. His interests include the constructs of power and powerlessness, political possibility, violence, and the production of wealth. His work of the past six years has dealt with the growth and commercialization of the US prison system, and now includes the field of contemporary globalization. He also works in collaboration with dance artist Taisha Paggett and in an ongoing five-person collaboration with artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Katya Sander and David Thorne. Hunt's work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as numerous grassroots and community-based venues throughout the US. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. Taisha Paggett is a dance artist currently pursuing an MFA in choreography through UCLA's World Arts and Cultures program. Her work has focused on re-thinking and re-contextualizing the ways in which (dancing) subjects are seen and made to be seen by exploring constructions of identities in both the world of dance and the larger American society; she also plays with the ways in which (performance) spaces are sites for meaning. Her work is inspired by various discourses on the body as an expressive tool and reaches for a bridge between dance and performance art. Taisha's movement background has been influenced by a number of her teachers and choreographers in New York and in Santa Cruz, where she received an undergraduate degree in Art History. Taisha has most recently worked with and been inspired by artists David Roussève, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Yvonne Rainer, and fellow colleagues in the WAC program, and has created collaborative projects with visual artist Ashley Hunt. ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco 415.771.7020 http://www.sfai.edu ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415.749.4507 ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small organizations The Squid List is licensed under a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
