Speaking Through Love Sharon Hayes

Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video, installation, and performance as her medium. Using multimedia, she "appropriates, rearranges, and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent". Hayes's work addresses themes such as romantic love, activism, queer theory, and politics. She incorporates texts from found speeches, recordings, songs, letters, and her own writing into her practice that she describes as “a series of performatives rather than performance.

So Mayer is a writer, film curator, bookseller and organiser. Their most recent book is A Nazi Word for A Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020), described by Eileen Myles as "a small revolution that becomes a party that you won’t be leaving soon,” and they have recently co-edited Unreal Sex (Cipher, 2021, with Adam Zmith) and Mothers of Invention: Film, Media and Caregiving Labor (Wayne State UP, 2022, with Corinn Columpar). @Such_Mayer