Artist Sharon Hayes and theatre director Brooke O’Harra ‘unspool genealogies of queer life’ in Echo Chamber, a dwell efficiency for Frieze New York 2025 on the iconic Tribeca venue Artists House.
Echo Chamber unfolds as a rating for 5 performers and an set up of audio cassette gamers and microphones. Hayes and O’Harra draw from their archive of cassette recordings, each business and private, from the late Nineteen Sixties to the late Nineties, together with radio broadcasts and Hayes’s 1987 conversations with lesbians throughout the US. This audio materials is, as O’Harra describes it, not ‘valuable’ however ‘precarious’: the recordings ‘don’t solely must be studied, analyzed, or listened to once more, however reinvented’.
Reverberating throughout recorded and dwell voices, previous and current, Echo Chamber considers the present political second and its confounding temporal orientations; ‘what it means to be going “backwards”, notably for queer folks’. The artists are ‘invested in how queer historical past and queer politics strikes throughout generations’, say the pair. Hayes and O’Harra made Echo Chamber with the assumption that ‘making the longer term is about imagining from these supplies’.
Echo Chamber was carried out by Sharon Hayes, Greg Mehrten, Brooke O’Harra, Janice Owusu and Pauli Pontrelli.
About Sharon Hayes
Sharon Hayes is an artist who makes use of video, efficiency, sound and public sculpture to reveal particular intersections between historical past, politics and speech, to unspool reductive historic narratives and to re-ignite dormant pathways via which counter-understandings of the up to date political situation will be fashioned. In her work, she lingers within the grammars – linguistic, affective and sonic – via which political resistance seems. These examinations are central to her work: from her earliest video set up in 2003, Symbionese Liberation Military (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29, by which she re-speaks of every of the 4 audio tapes made by Patty Hearst and the SLA throughout her kidnapping, to her most up-to-date work Ricerche: 4, a two-channel video set up composed of footage from three group interviews with queer and trans elders in Philadelphia, Dowelltown, Tennessee and Los Angeles.
About Brooke O’Harra
Brooke O’Harra is an expert theatre director and artist. Present initiatives embody an upcoming tour a large-scale efficiency mission titled Be Holding with poet Ross Homosexual, composer Tyshawn Sorey, and the brand new ensemble Yarn/Wire (David Gaines, Yolanda Wisher and Ross Homosexual carry out). Brooke can also be the co-creator of a collaborative efficiency with artist Sharon Hayes referred to as Time Passes. Time Passes is an eight-hour efficiency that makes use of the audiobook of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse as its backbone. This present has had two iterations and can proceed to be carried out for a decade.
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