"Sharon Hayes is an artist who has been engaged in a practice that uses multiple media--video, performance, and installation--in an ongoing investigation into various intersections between history, politics and speech. Her work is concerned with developing new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the present political moment, not as a moment without historical foundation but as one that reaches simultaneously backwards and forwards. To this aim, she employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theatre, film, anthropology, journalism and linguistics"--Page 2 of cover.