Artist's Performance
Artist's Performance. Hayes uses video, installation, and performance to delve into the politics of language, desire, and protest as manifest in both personal and public realms. Through a practice of "respeaking", her work highlights uncanny instances of resonance between recorded historical texts and our present political moment. As part of Haunted, the current exhibition at the museum, the artist stages a unique sonic event in which she will act as a dj, spinning vintage spoken-word records that refer to moments throughout the history of the twentieth century.