Sharon Hayes, ‘Ricerche: two’ (2020). Installation view, The Common Guild at the former Adelphi Terrace Public School, Glasgow. Photo: Isobel Lutz-Smith.
Earlier this year, American artist Sharon Hayes presented a new project, 'Ricerche', at the former Adelphi Terrace Public School, bringing together Hayes’ three ‘Ricerche’ films for the first time and including the artist’s latest major work, 'Ricerche: two' (2020), which was commissioned by The Common Guild.
Hayes’ ‘Ricerche’ (or ‘research’) project constitutes an examination of gender, sexuality and contemporary collective identifications. It continues Hayes' sustained investigation of the act of public speech, and its intersections with history, politics, activism, queer theory, love and sexuality, through both the collective and the individual voice.
Sharon Hayes joined us online for a discussion of this project and the making of 'Ricerche: two' (2020), which was filmed in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, with two women’s tackle football teams.
Sharon Hayes, ‘Ricerche: two’ production still, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, February 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin.
Sharon Hayes (b. 1970, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) lives and works in Philadelphia, USA.
Hayes is one of the most influential politically and socially committed artists working in the United States. She has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Hayes’ work is part of the public collections of Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw; among many others. Hayes’ 5-channel video installation 'In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You’ (2016) was co-commissioned by The Common Guild and Studio Voltaire, London.
Sharon Hayes holds the position of Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Event Details
This talk took place on Zoom on Thursday 16 December, 6–8pm. You can watch back until 31 January 2022.
