Elevator Music 20: Sharon Hayes I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I'm Not Free

Installation view, Sharon Hayes I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I’m Not Free, Tang Teaching Museum, 2012

Sharon Hayes, I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But As Long As I Love You I’m Not Free, 2008, performance, the New Museum, New York, December 1 - January 27, 2008, photograph by Andrea Geyer

For eight days between December 1, 2007 and January 12, 2008, Sharon Hayes walked from the New Museum at Bowery and Prince Streets in lower Manhattan to a different site of public address, stopping at street corners every few blocks and speaking a single, repeated love address to an anonymous and unnamed lover. Drawing from sources such as De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, and slogans from early gay Liberation parades in New York City, the “love address” uses so-called private speech to get to the emotional imbrication of promise and disappointment in collective political action.

Part of a series of works by Hayes that deal with the relationship between personal and political desire and between love and politics, I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But As Long As I Love You I’m Not Free, raises questions about war, the emotional landscape of protest actions and public speech.

Elevator Music 20 is organized by Ian Berry, Malloy Curator of the Tang Museum, and is made possible with the generous support of the Friends of the Tang.

Exhibition Name

Elevator Music 20: Sharon Hayes
I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I’m Not Free

Exhibition Type

Solo Exhibitions

Elevator Music Series

Place

Elevator

Dates

Feb 18, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012

Curators

Elevator Music 20 is organized by Ian Berry, Malloy Curator

Artists

Sharon Hayes

Past Exhibitions 2012

Elevator Music 20: Sharon HayesI March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I’m Not Free