REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ERASED
NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN and ASHLEY HUNT
ASHLEY HUNT’S MAPS THEORIZE HOW PRISONERS IN A DOMESTIC CONTEXT, AND REFUGEES IN AN "EXTRA-NATIONAL" CONTEXT, COMPOSE A GROWING BODY OF STATELESS PERSONS, UPON WHOSE ERASURE AND MARGINALIZATION GLOBAL AFFLUENCE AND NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM ARE BUILT. IN CONVERSATION WITH NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN HE TALKS ABOUT IMAGES THAT CREATE INVISIBILITIES AND ABOUT HOW THEORIZING INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND DYNAMICS BETWEEN STATES AND INDIVIDUALS, IDEAS, LAWS, ORGANIZATIONS, HISTORIES, FORCES AND PROCESSES CAN HELP VISUALIZE THESE INVISIBILITIES.
http://www.16beavergroup.org/ashley/ahunt_3.pdf
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This is Not Me
This is Not Me
1,000 found unaltered photo fragments, archival plastic sleeves
2005 - ongoing
Over the last few years, the artist team Lin + Lam have collected hundreds of abandoned ID card photo remainders. Together these photographs represent to them a collectivity of 'non-identities': the people amongst us who are caught between visibility and invisibility. At once sad and comic, the faceless testify to the violence that severs individual selves into anonymous categories, such as "migrant," "undocumented," "alien," "refugee," "stateless."
According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the term "stateless person" refers to one who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law. The Webopedia Computer Dictionary defines "stateless" as "having no information about what occurred previously." A stateless server, such as the World Wide Web, treats each request as an independent transaction without requiring any context or memory.
This is Not Me points to negation--as it exists in ourselves and at the hands of the bureaucratic state apparatus. Such negation arises at the very moment of a double recognition--self-recognition and recognition of the erasure of other bodies in the socio-political landscape.
http://www.linpluslam.com/this.htm
1,000 found unaltered photo fragments, archival plastic sleeves
2005 - ongoing
Over the last few years, the artist team Lin + Lam have collected hundreds of abandoned ID card photo remainders. Together these photographs represent to them a collectivity of 'non-identities': the people amongst us who are caught between visibility and invisibility. At once sad and comic, the faceless testify to the violence that severs individual selves into anonymous categories, such as "migrant," "undocumented," "alien," "refugee," "stateless."According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the term "stateless person" refers to one who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law. The Webopedia Computer Dictionary defines "stateless" as "having no information about what occurred previously." A stateless server, such as the World Wide Web, treats each request as an independent transaction without requiring any context or memory.
This is Not Me points to negation--as it exists in ourselves and at the hands of the bureaucratic state apparatus. Such negation arises at the very moment of a double recognition--self-recognition and recognition of the erasure of other bodies in the socio-political landscape.
http://www.linpluslam.com/this.htm
Teatro Indocumentado
After the largest immigration raid in history at a meat-packing plant in Iowa last year, several undocumented workers await deportation. While in limbo these men are reenacting their stories on stage.
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3 seconds to leave the courthouse
October 2008: Los Angeles Immigration Judge orders a notario, who was interfering with the efforts of a pro bono attorney, to leave the court building post haste. Notarios are a very big problem in the immigrant community - often holding themselves out as attorneys and or otherwise offering legal advise based upon little or no knowlege of immigration law.
Allegation 6 was admitted
October 22, 2008: Immigration Judge has 47 cases on her morning master calendar. Clients and attorneys crowd the hallway however cases move through at an efficient clip.
