Thursday, March 4, 2010

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Table Topics // Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer // March 4 11:30-12:30



Join us on Thursday March 4, 11:30-12:30 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery for a Table Topics discussion with artists Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer as they discuss 9 Scripts from a Nation at War and the larger context of their individual work.

Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer will be on campus this week participating in the Human Rights Conference: Confronting Images and Testimonies, March 4-5, 2010 at the Wexner Center Film and Video Theater and Thompson Library. On Friday, March 5 from 4-8 pm, their collaborative work, Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading will be performed in the West Reading Room of the Thompson Library.

Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064 is a four-hour public reading of unedited transcripts from 18 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and march 2005. Originally conceived as a part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War -- a collaboration between David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer--which is a mulit-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afganistan, considering how war determines and "scripts" the roles we are asked to play.

Ashley Hunt is an artist, activist and writer who engages the ideas of social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. His works include the ongoing Corrections Documentary Project (www.correctionsproject.com); 9 Scripts From a Nation at War (www.9scripts.info); and a collaboration with dance artist Taisha Paggett, investigating individual agency through movement, thought and politics, which was the subject of their recent work at BAK in the Netherlands. Hunt lives in Los Angeles. You can find further information about his work by visiting www.ashleyhuntwork.net

Andrea Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works. She investigates the influences of national, gender and class specific implications in the context of a permanent re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories in history and current politics. She is a 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Since 2005 she has been a professor at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. You can find further information about her work by visiting www.andreageyer.info

Thursday, February 18, 2010