A Worldmap: In Which We See…, 2004 (ongoing)

In his artistic work and activist practice, Ashley Hunt uses video, photography, maps, and texts to draw attention to social processes and conditions that have no visibility in the media. A perennial subject of his artistic confrontation is the theme of power and its disproportionate distribution, both with regard to the individual and to companies and countries.

Thematically, the artwork A Worldmap: In Which We See… is part of Hunt’s depiction of the interconnections of power and representational strategies: on the basis of globalization processes, it visualizes the interrelations between states and individuals, laws, borders, and historiographies, highlighting whether they are visible or invisible. Besides geographical aspects, the issues of citizenship and statelessness, social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, are of central importance.

Hunt produced the world map of globalization on view at the ZKM | Karlsruhe in 2010 at the ifa-Gallery in Stuttgart by inviting activists, students, and anyone else who was interested to create the map in a collaborative effort. In Karlsruhe, he has added photographs and audio recordings to the artwork, which expand the world map to include a locally specific perspective. The audio recordings and photographs were produced in a four-day workshop with the artist in preparation for the exhibition. (HP)

A Worldmap: In Which We See… was the starting point for a workshop held at the ZKM in August 2011.