Artista en Perfil: No. 1.0 -- Ashley Hunt Ashley Hunt’s presentation of APUNTES SOBRE UNA CIUDAD VACIA
by Jan Galligan and Lillian Mulero, Santa Olaya, PR
CALL: There's no place like home!
RESPONSE: There's no place like home!
Shortly after the flood waters of hurricane Katrina had receded, artist and activist Ashley Hunt made a trip to New Orleans to join with a group of organizations including Critical Resistance, Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Human Rights Watch, in order to help document what had happened at the Orleans Parish Prison during and after the flood. It was charged that hundreds of prisoners had been abandoned, locked in their cells without food as the flood waters rose to chest level and beyond.
Published in En Rojo, the cultural suppliment of Claridad, Puerto Rico's weekly national newspaper. EN ROJO, is publishing a series of articles that we are writing about art and artists in San Juan and around the island.
Breve Resumen del artículo:
El artista utiliza el vídeo, la fotografía y la escritura para vincularse con movimientos sociales, formas de aprendizaje y el discurso público. Se interesa en la forma en que ciertas estructuras sociales permiten a algunas personas acumular poder mientras mantienen a otros sin nada. Le interesa saber cómo las personas llegan a conocer, responder, y concebirse a sí mismas dentro de estas estructuras....
Publicado: lunes, 28 de febrero de 2011
Katrina victims on highway overpass, New Orleans, LA, 2005
Article as published in spanish, En Rojo, Feb 28, 2010
PDF of article - in english
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