Sharon Hayes In Conversation

This discussion event with internationally renown American artist Sharon Hayes is programmed to coincide with an exhibition of her work at The Common Guild.

Sharon Hayes In Conversation, Saturday 8th October, 2pm to 4pm

Hayes’ new commission In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You is a video installation that re-stages material extracted from newsletters and small-run publications produced by feminist, lesbian and effeminist political collectives in the US and UK from 1955 to 1977. Thirteen readers/performers, from the contemporary queer and feminist community in Philadelphia read the texts aloud. The work draws out the complex relationships between communication and isolation, as well as marking some of the critical debates that circulated in the early formation of lesbian, feminist, lesbian-feminist and gay liberation political positions. Filmed within a domestic setting, the ‘home’ is posited as a political site, a site where politics is made, where political language was written and read and where individuals and collectives gathered the language to define their political identities and aspirations.

The work will be at The Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow, from 8th October to 4th December 2016. More information about the exhibition can be found on The Common Guild website.

Sharon Hayes will be in conversation at GWL on 8th October.

Booking

This event is open to all and is free to attend. Please book below (you will be taken through the shopping cart but no charge will be made) or you can call us on 0141 550 2267. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.