Sharon Hayes
1970–

Introduction

Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video, installation, and performance as her medium. Using multimedia, she "appropriates, rearranges, and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent". Hayes's work addresses themes such as romantic love, activism, queer theory, and politics. Hayes works to develop "new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the present political movement, not as a moment without historical foundation but as one that reaches simultaneously backwards and fowards." She incorporates texts from found speeches, recordings, songs, letters, and her own writing into her practice that she describes as “a series of performatives rather than performance.”

Wikidata identifier

Q2277261

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Roles

Artist, installation artist, performance artist, video artist

ULAN identifier

500294132

Names

Sharon Hayes

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On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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