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Live Arts - Notes on the Emptying of a City by Ashley Hunt

Presented by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe at Broad Street Ministry

September 11, 2012

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In a performance acting as a dismantled film, a narrator pieces together the sounds, images, and voiceover of a documentary before a live audience. Seated at a desk with a text and a laptop computer, artist and activist Ashley Hunt weaves video-testimonies of survivors together with his own personal recollections as a documentarian and organizer in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

While new disasters and emergencies move through the headlines on a daily basis, the political and human crisis of Katrina has, for many, receded into the past. Notes on the Emptying of a City brings back to the present the ruined and emptied homes, the cataloguing marks left by soldiers and police, and the prison that the city refused to evacuate. Hunt’s performance reopens complex questions of race, visibility, and speech, which still beg for answers.

In short: voices from Katrina, live journalism, political crisis, leaving disaster for comfort, emptied architecture.

Another Ashley Hunt Event!
Artist Talk and Conversation with Ashley Hunt: Questions of Art, Participation, and Social Engagement
Free / 90 minutes
Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art 2001 North 13th Street Sept 10 at 7 pm