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SHARON HAYES
Assistant Professor
"Symbionese Liberation Army(SLA), Screed #16, Patricia Hearst's Second Tape,"still from video installation, 2003
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Over the past ten years, Sharon Hayes has been engaged in an art practice that moves between mediums - video, performance and installation - to investigate the relationship of history, politics and speech to individual and collective subject formation. To this aim, she employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism. Hayes' work investigates the present political moment through a critical examination of various texts. One work uses performative strategies to filter historic scripts, including a speech from the 1968 Democratic National Convention and transcripts of audiotapes sent to Patricia Hearst's parents by the Symbionese Liberation Army during her 1974 kidnapping, through a process of interpretation informed by the historical gap between two moments of enunciation - the original and the re-spoken or re-presentation. After Before, is a current quasi-documentary video work in which two people interview people on New York City streets to explore the pronouncement and production of "public opinion."
Hayes' work has been shown at P.S. 1, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Parlour Projects, the Public Theater, P. S. 122, Dixon Place, Dance Theater Workshop and HERE in New York. On the west coast, it has been presented at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Track 16, Gallery 2102 and The Project. Hayes' work has also been exhibited and performed across the U.S. and abroad in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna and Zagreb, as well as in lesbian living rooms around the globe. Hayes received a 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and was a 1999-2000 participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. She was a resident at the International Artists Studio Program (IASPIS) in Sweden in 2003 and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Banff Centre for the Arts in 2004.
Hayes taught Advanced Film/Advanced Video at the Cooper Union School of Art in Fall 2004.
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