[Basekamp Events] This SATURDAY: A WORLD MAP... in dialogue - Ashley Hunt and Jenna Loyd @ basekamp

[Basekamp]

A WORLD MAP... in dialogue
Ashley Hunt and Jenna Loyd
In conjunction with AN ATLAS OF RADICAL CARTOGRAPHY exhibition


SATURDAY, MARCH 7th 2008

2-4pm: Ashley Hunt and Jenna Loyd in dialogue
Please join Los Angeles artist, Ashley Hunt, and activist geographer,  
Jenna Loyd for a conversation about Hunt's work “A WORLD MAP in which  
we see...”. (Speaker bios below.)
Please note: $5-10 suggested donation for gallery talk is requested,  
to help defray speakers travel costs. No one will be turned away for  
lack of funds.

4-5pm: Reception with co-curator Alexis Bhagat
Old and new friends are invited to come celebrate the closing of the  
“An Atlas” exhibition with An Atlas curator Alexis Bhagat. A tea  
enthusiast, Alexis will prepare Indian chai to warm up the conversation.




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 complimentary, drawing upon the ideas of social movements and  
cultural theory alike — the theorizing and practices of each informing  
the other.

This has included investigations into the prison, the demise of  
welfare state institutions, war and disaster capitalism, documentary  
representations and political activism. His primary work of the past  
eight years is organized under the umbrella of “The Corrections  
Documentary Project,” which centers around the contemporary growth of  
prisons and their centrality to today’s economic restructuring and the  
politics of race.

Hunt’s work has been screened and exhibited at the Nottingham  
Contemporary, the 3rd Bucharest Bienial, the Tate Modern, documenta  
12, the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore,   
the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, as well as numerous  
grassroots and community based venues throughout the U.S. Writings  
include, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (‘08, ‘07 & ‘05),  
Concerning Knowledge Production ('08), Art Journal (‘07), Chto Delat  
(‘07), Rethinking Marxism (‘06),  Sandbox Magazine (‘02) and at  
Artwurl.org (‘03–‘05).


Jenna Loyd is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture  
and Politics, The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a scholar-activist  
whose work centers on the political geographies of violence and  
health. She approaches questions of racism, body politics, and the  
urban environment through theorizing how structural and state violence  
are embedded and represented in the landscape. Her first book  
manuscript, Freedom's Body, traces health activism of the Black  
freedom, women's and antiwar movements in Los Angeles during the 1960s  
and 1970s. Walls Cages Cities Homes is a feminist, antiracist project  
that examines how US regimes of mass incarceration and immigration  
create racially differentiated political economies, and how  
antiviolence and immigrant justice movements are working to create  
economies for living. She is co-editing a collection, Beyond Walls and  
Cages (http://beyondcagesandwalls.blogspot.com/), that will analyze  
the connections between militarization, mass incarceration, and  
migration policies to enable bridges between antiviolence and  
immigrant justice movements.

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researched and co-developed interdisciplinary, self-organized art  
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to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint  
experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art  
communities. The goal is to continue proposing collaboration as a  
practical and theoretical stance, and to participate in its evolution.
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