LUX 28: SHARON HAYES, IN THE NEAR FUTURE: Wed 17 June – Sat 21 June

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In the Near Future, New York, 2005

17 – 21 JUNE 2008
SHARON HAYES, IN THE NEAR FUTURE

New York-based artist Sharon Hayes (b. 1970, USA) creates and  
documents situations that investigate the history and construction of  
pubic opinion, speech and gesture in relation to processes of  
individual and collective subject formation.
Her performances and installations engage with the critical potential  
of art to question the way in which we take part, both as speakers  
and listeners, in current political discourse.

For In the Near Future, Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative  
solo protests that investigate the figure of the protester and the  
act of speech of the protest slogan. In this series of performative  
actions, Hayes stands on the street holding signs, some of which are  
culled from past protests while others hold more elusive and  
speculative messages. The work questions how our knowledge of the  
past is mediated by images and in turn these produce meaning in  
excess of the original events and represent a future possibility for  
action. In London, Hayes will develop three new actions based on the  
city’s specific history of dissent. As part of the work, Hayes  
invites the audience to both watch and participate through  
documenting the actions. These photographic documentations, which  
will be presented as a multiple slide installation at LUX 28, raise  
issues of circulation and production of meaning.

In the Near Future is part of Perplexed in Public, a series of off- 
site works and performances organized by Lisson Gallery and taking  
place across central London during the months of June and July 2008.

Preview: Sun 15 June, 7–9 pm
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
Opening hours: 12-6pm, Wed 17 June – Sat 21 June.
Free entry.




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