Benjamin Hunt

Benjamin Hunt’s practice fuses experimental lens based image making with visual anthropology/archaeology processes. Exploring issues surrounding medium specificity commonly found in avant-garde art work and debates between researcher and research often associated with anthropology and archaeology are tied together. Hunt makes work that responds to coastal architectural spaces that are commonly associated with transiency or liminality, a problematic dislocation between the material form and consciousness given identity bestowed upon it.

What kind of work is involved in the co-emergence of interpretation and reality, and what role do materials play in this process? (Alberti, Jones, Pollard:2013).

This session will centre around a recent research paper that Ben produced titled; ‘How can reflexive indexical image making expand the visual communication of geographic liminal space?’

The paper makes reference to recent work Ben has researched and developed. His work attempts to fuse experimental photographic art with visual anthropology/archaeology. The paper aims to outline the debates/problematics/catalysts that exist combining these two seemingly polar opposite practices and the hierarchies / consequences between making as process and as finite outcome.

Ben will be curating a film screening that embodies the research that has been recently explored.

The screening will initiate by showing early pioneering documentary film works. Early avant-garde film practice that explores the material nature of the image will then be gradually introduced.  The screening will then crescendo by highlighting works that he considers to embody avant-garde and documentary practices simultaneously from the 1970s onwards to current day.

Tickets must be booked – FREE