Sharon Hayes Notes

Here are the notes I took during Sharon Hayes' artist talk.

Saussure
demonstration based performance
-speech act
-performer/auudience
-performance as singular event

documentation as event in and of itself
event and nonevent
respeaking, the perfomative, does rather than says
-contradiction in time
-moving backword and forward

through what
gift
voice and vote, confused

following sound, indirect, general questions
in affiliation with subjectivity
how does the speech act create meaning
words-body-time/place
protest what protest
installation- unfixed, transient

respeaking history
readymade? action
translation

impossibility of the simultaneous moment
non-expertness
never forgetting

metonymic/metaphoric

work to be done in disabled
disrupted cognition- failure
gaps in speech, fissures in language