Free Newspapers
A series of self-published newspapers for takeaway during exhibitions of Degrees of Visibility, Ashes Ashes and Hostile Territory, 2015–23

Turn This Upside Down, with Critical Resistance members, Nick DeRenzi, Lily Fahsi-Haskell, Alex Ludington, Viju Mathew, and contributions by Steve Brooke and Jo’an Dunn, 2023

Hostile Territory: Between Inside and Out, 2023

Abolish the University, with Alberto Lule, Missy “MJ” Hart, Steven Czifra and Josh Solis of the Underground Scholars, 2021

A Whole Lot of Talent and a Whole Lot of Resources, a conversation with Jackie Clay, Tim Clay, Daniel Rogers, Brunell Smith, Mary T. Smith, and members of the 2020 Oral History and Storytelling Workshop at the Coleman Center for the Arts, 2020

Postscript on Ashes Ashes, with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Critical Resistance and Release Aging People from Prison (RAPP), 2020

Carceral Geographies of Southern California, with Hilda Cruz, Amber-Rose Howard and Dylan Rodriguez, 2019

Bourbon, Basketball and Horse Racing, with Judah Schept and DeBraun Thomas of Take Back Cheapside, 2018

Weak, False and Full of Holes, with Elizabeth Webb, 2018

4 Directions of Allensworth, with Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros, 2016

Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field
Essay included in Future/Present, eds Roberta Uno, Elizabeth Webb, Daniela Alvarez, published by Arts Change US on Duke University Press, 2023

Get to the Fortune Teller!
With Margarita Gutman and Katya Sander,
Art: An Index to (see also) Politics: 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships, 2018

Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory
Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2017

Degrees of Visibility
Los Angeles Review of Books, Quarterly Journal #16, 2017

What will your work organize?
Essay contributed to Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles & Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, edited by Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass, & Social Practice Queens, 2017

Letter to Avery
A letter to the archive for The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins, by Avery Gordon, 2017

Exquisite L.A. with Young Chung, Ashley Hunt and taisha paggett
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, issue 8, 2017

Contribution to Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, Dominic Willsdon, published by the New Museum and MIT Press, 2016

Interview with Ashley Hunt and taisha paggett
By Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubback, Native Strategies, Issue 4, Summer 2014

Book review of Lane Relyea’s Your Everyday Artworld
X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 4, 2014

Dictatorship of an Audience
A short play written for The Second World Congress of Free Artists, in Three Acts
Published by Camel Collective, 2013

Treacherous Teachery and Arting and Art School
Written with Malene Dam
Shifter Magazine #20, 2013

Notes on the Emptying of a City
Artist’s book, published in VCFA Talks, 2012

Dear Artists: an Open Letter on the Occupy Movement
Published in Broken English, ed. Julieta Aranda and Carlos Motta, in connection with Performa Biennial 2011
http://11.performa-arts.org/images/uploads/pdf/BROKEN_ENGLISH.pdf

Theater of Scarcity
Published in itch journal #12: Com(petition) The Big Throw Down, 2011

Social Practice Art’s Identity Crisis: Ashley Hunt Interviewed by Abigail Satinsky
Published Online, on Bad at Sports, Contemporary Art Talk, 2011

But you, you’re not cinema. (Sorry I have to tell you this)
Co-authored with Katya SanderPublished in What is To Be Done? Spectial Issue, Make Films Politically, 2007

Notes on the Emptying of a City (essay)
Published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 5, Vol 1, 2007

Anywhere/Everywhere: a Translation of Captivity
Published in Crime and Punishment, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Tallinn, 2007
Reprinted in To Shoot a Kite, Exhibition Catalogue, Cue Art Foundation, 2014
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Tricks of Logic and Constellations of Time
Published in The Good Life (La Buena Vida), by Carlos Motta, 2009

A Body is Not Only a Body: On the Montage of Young Chung
“Pornocracy” Issue of Itch Journal, Early Fall 2008

Representations of the Erased
A conversation with Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Published in No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night,
Exhibition Catalogue, Kunst-Werke, 2006
Republished in On Knowledge Production: Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, published by Basis voor Actuelle Kunst, 2008
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A Fortification of Race
Published in Re-Thinking Marxism, Volume 18, Number 3, 2006
Reprinted in Social Medium: Artists Writing: 2000–2015, edited by Jennifer Liese, 2016 
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Creating Publics
With Simon Sheikh, in Cork Caucus: on art, possibility & democracy, 2005

Working
A seven round conversation between nine artists: Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Maryam Jafri, Kara Lynch, Ulrike Müller, David Thorne & Alex Villar
Published in Artwurl webzine
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round 1 • round 2 • round 3 • round 4 • round 5 • round 6 • round 7

Temporary Public Spaces
Published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 4, Vol 1, 2005
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The Corrections Study Guide
Written as part of the Corrections Documentary Project, a popular education tool
chapter 1 • chapter 2 • chapter 3

360 Degrees of Criminal Justice: Documentary, Method & Law
An essay on the 360 Degrees Web Project
Published in Sandbox Magazine
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Revolutions per Minute
Written with Katya Sander
Published in Surroundings Surrounded, ed. Olafur Eliasson