2016.22.A-B Sharon Hayes, I March in the Parade of Liberty but as Long As I Love You I'm Not Free

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I March in the Parade of Liberty, but as Long as I Love You I’m Not Free was a set of speeches by Sharon Hayes, performed in the streets of New York City over eight days between December 2007 and January 2008. Hayes stands as a lone demonstrator reciting a love letter to an unnamed “you” and lamenting their ended relationship, which she blames on an unspecified war. The address recycles slogans from protests and platitudes about love, which at times are indistinguishable from each other. More than a conflation of personal and political, this “speech act”—as Hayes calls it—is an articulation of disillusion­ment, and a public expression that resists increasing social isolation and inability to communicate.

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  • Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 253.
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  • The Guggenheim~Learn more about Sharon Hayes and her performances. 
  • Creative Time~Watch Sharon Hayes discuss her practice at the 2009 Creative Time Summit, entitled Revolutions in Public Practice.  
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I March in the Parade of Liberty, but as Long as I Love You I’m Not Free was a set of speeches by Sharon Hayes, performed in the streets of New York City over eight days between December 2007 and January 2008. Hayes stands as a lone demonstrator reciting a love letter to an unnamed “you” and lamenting their ended relationship, which she blames on an unspecified war. The address recycles slogans from protests and platitudes about love, which at times are indistinguishable from each other. More than a conflation of personal and political, this “speech act”—as Hayes calls it—is an articulation of disillusion­ment, and a public expression that resists increasing social isolation and inability to communicate.

Excerpt from
  • Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 253.
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  • The Guggenheim~Learn more about Sharon Hayes and her performances. 
  • Creative Time~Watch Sharon Hayes discuss her practice at the 2009 Creative Time Summit, entitled Revolutions in Public Practice.  
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