Ashley Hunt and Taisha Paggett Give Public Lecture

Fri, Mar 24
5:00pm
Free

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 Rouss=E8ve, 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:

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
415.771.7020
http://www.sfai.edu

Additional Info:

415.749.4507