Departing from History: Sharon Hayes, Reenactment and Archival Practice in Contemporary Art

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dc.contributor.advisorMondloch, Kate
dc.contributor.authorDenning, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T00:32:47Z
dc.date.available2016-02-24T00:32:47Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-23
dc.description.abstractThis thesis addresses reenactment and archival practice in the work of Sharon Hayes, a mid-career multi-media artist renowned for her use of archival documents to pose questions about history, politics, and speech. I do this through analyses of two of Hayes’s projects: the series In the Near Future (2005-2009) and a series of projects the artist refers to as “love addresses.” While these projects appropriate and repeat historical documents, Hayes’s work is especially interesting for the way it emphasizes difference over authenticity and explores the ways meaning shifts across temporal, geographic, and social contexts. In contrast to scholars who argue that Hayes’s practice is nostalgic and serves to decontextualize and depoliticize history, my thesis argues that the pedagogical aspects of Hayes’s work and her performative engagements with historical material are deeply political and contextual. My thesis demonstrates that Hayes’s distinctive contribution is to model historical agency and imagine alternative futures.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19726
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectArchival practiceen_US
dc.subjectContemporary arten_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectPerformance arten_US
dc.subjectQueer studiesen_US
dc.subjectReenactmenten_US
dc.titleDeparting from History: Sharon Hayes, Reenactment and Archival Practice in Contemporary Art
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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