BOOK:Sharon Hayes,Phaidon Publications

Sharon Hayes early studies in anthropology had a pivotal influence on her later work, Hayes practices a unique blend of performance and social engagement, often taking her performances outside of the gallery and into the street. The first comprehensive publication to capture Sharon Hayes’s unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at the forefront of questions of feminist history, queer time, and protest culture for over a decade is available for pre-order by Phaidon Publications. Sharon Hayes uses photography, film, video, sound, performance, and text to interrogate the intersections between the personal and collective sphere. Her deeply affective and queer approach to history and politics draws particular attention to the language of twentieth-century activism as well as drama, anthropology, and journalism. This book is the first to feature all of Hayes’s most significant projects, from the ten-hour performance “My Fellow American” (1981-88) to her “Monument Lab” addressing the absence of monuments to women in Philadelphia.-Dimitris Lempesis