Sharon Hayes - In the Near Future
04 Jul - 02 Aug 2008
Sharon Hayes , In the Near Future, New York, 2005
Sharon Hayes
‘In the Near Future, New York’
‘In the Near Future, New York’
Sharon Hayes
‘In the Near Future, New York’
‘In the Near Future, New York’
Sharon Hayes
‘In the Near Future, New York’
‘In the Near Future, New York’
Sharon Hayes
In the Near Future, 2005–08
IN THE NEAR FUTURE is a performance-based artwork in which Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an ongoing investigation into the figure of the protester, the speech act of the protest sign and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.
It is organized into four separate iterations each of which takes place in locations of current or historic public speech or public protest in different cities in the U.S. and Europe: New York, London, Warsaw, and Vienna. An audience was invited to document these actions. The performative-actions of IN THE NEAR FUTURE are not constructed as a literal reenactment of a past protest but rather function as a citation of sorts: one that marks both the memory of a past protest and the possibility of a future one.
In the Near Future, 2005–08
IN THE NEAR FUTURE is a performance-based artwork in which Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an ongoing investigation into the figure of the protester, the speech act of the protest sign and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.
It is organized into four separate iterations each of which takes place in locations of current or historic public speech or public protest in different cities in the U.S. and Europe: New York, London, Warsaw, and Vienna. An audience was invited to document these actions. The performative-actions of IN THE NEAR FUTURE are not constructed as a literal reenactment of a past protest but rather function as a citation of sorts: one that marks both the memory of a past protest and the possibility of a future one.