In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b.
1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and
desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language and tools of
political dissent, creating unexpected affinities between important
historical events and the present. Highlighted in this volume is
the video installation Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds
#13, 16, 20 & 29 (2003)-a work in which Hayes memorized the
famous taped speeches by Patty Hearst and her kidnappers, the
leftist radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army, and then
reads them to an audience who corrects her mistakes. It is in these
slippages between memory and history that the meaning of Hayes's
work resides. This book also includes a group of new site-specific
works that addresses the Whitney's role in the historic development
of process-based, performative art and its engagement with politics
that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This book serves
as document of Hayes's thinking process, featuring original
contributions from Hayes and some two-dozen other writers, artists,
and activists, which provide insight into the motivations and
development of her projects. The catalogue includes images
carefully selected by the artist-photographs, vinyl LP covers,
fliers, images of Hayes's own work-and a short text response by
each of the contributors. Contributors include: Dennis Adams,
Lauren Berlant, Saramina Berman, Claire Bishop, Juli Carson, Kabir
Carter, Christhian Diaz, Saeed Taji Farouky, Malik Gaines, Andrea
Geyer, Leah Gilliam, Michela Griffo, Sharon Hayes, Holly Hughes,
Chrissie Iles, Iman Issa, Hans Kuzmich, Cristobal Lehyt, Ralph
Lemon, Brooke O'Harra, Jenni Olson, Dean Spade, Lynne Tillman,
What, How & For Whom/WHW, Craig Willse. Distributed for the
Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum
of American Art(06/21/12-09/09/12)
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