Revolutionary Love 1: I am Your Worst Fear

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WANTED: FLAMBOYANT QUEERS OR THOSE THAT CAN PLAY THE PART!

We are looking for a minimum of 75 people to speak a text about love, politics, gay power and gay liberation on the occasion of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. We are looking for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transmen, transwomen, queers, fags, dykes, muff divers, bull daggers, queens, drama queens, flaming queens, trannies, fairies, gym boys, boxing boys, boxing girls, pitchers, catchers, butches, bois, FtoMs, MtoFs, old maids, Miss Kittens, Dear Johns, inverts, perverts, girlfriends, drag kings, prom queens, happy people, alien sexualities or anything else you want to be or are and wish to bring out for the event!

Want to learn more and SIGN UP? Head on over to:
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/dnc/

Details of the Performance:
On one day during the Convention (August 25-28), approximately 70-100 people will speak a text about love, politics, gay power, and gay liberation, written by Hayes for the occasion. We are looking for volunteer performers to recite (as a chorus) a 10–15 minute text, repeated multiple times over a period of approximately two hours. The performance will take place in a public space in proximity to the Convention (we will send you more details once the site is confirmed). A copy of the text will be sent to you in the coming weeks.

About the Project:
Revolutionary Love 1: I Am Your Worst Fear is the first in a two-part project by Hayes taking place at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The second performance, which will take place at the RNC, is titled Revolutionary Love 2: I Am Your Best Fantasy.
Revolutionary Love 1 is presented by Creative Time with Dialog:City as part of Creative Time’s 2008 national public art initiative Democracy in America: The National Campaign. Engaging the past eight years of cultural production, activism, and resistance in the U.S., Democracy in America: The National Campaign offers platforms for artists to address the shifting nature of democracy in this country—from probing fundamental questions about the nature of war, freedom, justice, and the social contract, to encouraging open and public dialogue on timely issues from red states to blue, rural communities to urban centers, classrooms to town halls, and artists’ studios to public squares.
More information on Hayes’ project and Democracy in America is available at www.creativetime.org.


WHO IS SHARON HAYES?


From www.shaze.info

Over the past ten years, Sharon Hayes has been engaged in an art practice that moves between multiple mediums–video, performance, installation–in an ongoing artistic investigation into the relations of history, politics and space to the process of individual and collective subject formation. To this aim, she employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics, and journalism.
Hayes’ installation, video and performance work has been shown at P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Parlour Projects, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, HERE, Performance Space 122, the Joseph Papp Public Theater and the WOW Cafe and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Track 16, Gallery 2102 and The Project in Los Angeles. In addition she has shown in galleries, exhibition or performance spaces in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmö, Vienna and Zagreb as well as in California, Florida, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont, and in 45 lesbian living rooms across the United States.
Hayes was a 1999 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She also received a 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She was a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, 1999-2000 and received an MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio at UCLA’s Department of Art in 2003.

For more information about Sharon Hayes and to view more of her past projects, please visit www.shaze.info.

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July 01, 2008

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Revolutionary Love 1: I Am Your Worst Fear is the first in a two-part project by Hayes taking place at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The second performance, which will take place at the RNC, is titled Revolutionary Love 2: I Am Your Best Fantasy. Revolutionary Love 1 is presented by Creative Time with Dialog:City as part of Creative Time’s 2008 national public art initiative Democracy in America: The National Campaign. Engaging the past eight years of cultural production, activism, and resistance in the U.S., Democracy in America: The National Campaign offers platforms for artists to address the shifting nature of democracy in this country—from probing fundamental questions about the nature of war, freedom, justice, and the social contract, to encouraging open and public dialogue on timely issues from red states to blue, rural communities to urban centers, classrooms to town halls, and artists’ studios to public squares. More information on Hayes’ project and Democracy in America is available at www.creativetime.org. Details of the Performance: On one day during the Convention (August 25-28), approximately 70-100 people will speak a text about love, politics, gay power, and gay liberation, written by Hayes for the occasion. We are looking for volunteer performers to recite (as a chorus) a 10–15 minute text, repeated multiple times over a period of approximately two hours. The performance will take place in a public space in proximity to the Convention (we will send you more details once the site is confirmed). A copy of the text will be sent to you in the coming weeks. To learn more and SIGN UP head on over to: http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/dnc/ Questions? Please contact us at dnc@creativetime.org or 212.206.6674 x214