Ashley Hunt
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. Interested in the construction 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 U.S. prison system, expanding most recently into 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, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous grassroots and community based venues throughout the U.S. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998.
Taisha Paggett
Taisha Paggett is a dance artist currently pursuing an MFA in choreography through UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures program. Her current 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, and playing 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 is inspired by a number of influential teachers and choreographers in New York and 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.
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. Interested in the construction 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 U.S. prison system, expanding most recently into 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, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous grassroots and community based venues throughout the U.S. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998.
Taisha Paggett
Taisha Paggett is a dance artist currently pursuing an MFA in choreography through UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures program. Her current 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, and playing 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 is inspired by a number of influential teachers and choreographers in New York and 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.
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