Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks
(c)image: Andrea Geyer, (c)Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free, 2007-2008
Installation
single-channel audio installation with framed silkscreen poster
Referring to the political context of the US-led invasion of Iraq, I March in the Parade of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I Am Not Free draws on the emotional landscape of protest actions. Between 1 December 2007 and 12 January 2008, Hayes walked the streets of New York, stopping at street corners and speaking a single, repeated love address to an anonymous and unnamed lover. Drawing from sources such as Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and slogans from early gay liberation parades in New York, Hayes is using private speech to enact the promises and disappointments of collective political action.
