Books by Sarah Hayden
This is a monograph on the German Minimalist and Pop artist, Peter Roehr, who produced highly rep... more This is a monograph on the German Minimalist and Pop artist, Peter Roehr, who produced highly repetitive work using mass-produced material in text, film, sound, photographs, objects and images. As well as his artistic work, Roehr was significant in his curation of international art and is now being rediscovered as a force in 1960s experimental art. He also produced a substantial body of writing (archived at MMK, Frankfurt). This book fits into the contemporary reconsideration of art movements as globally produced rather than under American hegemony. One of its key features is to identify how Roehr connects to Warhol, Andre, and others, as well as to international developments in literature. The book also engages in depth with his
considerable textual archive.
The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882–1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and ar... more The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882–1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist of the avant-garde and of what it means to be an artist. Foregrounding Loy’s critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and “Degenerate” artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy’s importance in an entirely novel way. Examining the primary texts produced by those movements themselves—their manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches—Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy’s poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.
Chapters in Books by Sarah Hayden
Insel by Mina Loy , May 13, 2014
Invited Talks by Sarah Hayden
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In Paris and New York in the decade spanning 1915-1925, Francis Picabia, Mina Loy and the Barones... more In Paris and New York in the decade spanning 1915-1925, Francis Picabia, Mina Loy and the Baronesss Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven styled themselves vectors of the pan-national Dada contagion. Deploying disparate aesthetics and working across plastic and textual media, they antagonized their audiences, agitated for the sublation of art and life and engaged with the problematics of Anti-Art. Beyond this common cause, inter-artist affinities abound. All three were given to asserting (and unprudishly celebrating) the fleshy facts of embodied existence. Their works from this period register parallel preoccupations with denigrating religious icons and institutions. The concept of artistic making as [quasi] divine creation is a figure that haunts each of their distinctly irreverent oeuvres—a problem to which their practices supply markedly divergent solutions. Opening with an exploration of these shared concerns as they manifest in texts, objects and drawings by Loy, Picabia and the Baroness, this lecture will focus its analysis on the Anti-Art processing of Nietzschean Anti-Deism in Picabia’s Jésus-Christ Rastaquouère.
Articles by Sarah Hayden
Cultural Politics, 2020
“New Eelam” is a cloud-based digital subscription housing project offering ideal homes to footloo... more “New Eelam” is a cloud-based digital subscription housing project offering ideal homes to footloose “global citizens” who practice high mobility, postpolitical utopianism, and minimalist interior design. This article uncovers the political and cultural significance of this dream of dematerialized existence in the work of the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas. Mapping the dematerialization of the art object onto the dematerializations of cloud computing and minimalist lifestyles, this article addresses two ongoing series: When Platitudes Become Form (2012–) and New Eelam (2016–). First, it explores how New Eelam conscripts its public into imagining itself as the morally and aesthetically superior advance-guard of a new world order. Then, it uses Kulendran Thomas’s submerged invocation of the 1969 exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form to analyze how this experiment in “digital realty” uses dematerialization to solicit urgent realizations about the relationships between the contemporary art market, mass migration, and geopolitical reality.
b2o: boundary 2 online, 2020
The cloud-based housing subscription service, New Eelam, promises a “more liquid form of citizens... more The cloud-based housing subscription service, New Eelam, promises a “more liquid form of citizenship beyond borders; citizenship by choice”. This essay argues that New Eelam’s vision of frictionless mobility, liquid citizenship and de-territorialized hipster sovereignty is driven by the project’s undermining of sensorial sovereignty— via voice. Attending to how, as well as what we hear about New Eelam, it addresses the project’s manipulations of voice as medium, metaphor and as material trace. Tracking New Eelam’s recent evolution—from reliance on audio playback of a distinctly disembodied “voice of god”, to the installation of silently coercive scrolling text—it uncovers the submerged political valence of a bimodal vocality that strives to effect frictionless transmission. This essay demonstrates how New Eelam’s dubious promise of sovereignty is absented by its apperception via a channel that, itself, tests and threatens the sovereignty of its addressees.
Cordite 49:1 A British & Irish issue , Feb 28, 2015
http://cordite.org.au/essays/seeing-skulls-reading-palms/
Irish Journal of French Studies, Volume 13, 2013, pp. 41-67(27), Dec 2013
Art Writing by Sarah Hayden
Enclave Review 11 (Autumn 2014), pp.1-2
Enclave Review 9, Nov 2013
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Books by Sarah Hayden
considerable textual archive.
Chapters in Books by Sarah Hayden
Invited Talks by Sarah Hayden
Articles by Sarah Hayden
Art Writing by Sarah Hayden
considerable textual archive.
My introduction to that edition contains some analysis of its content.
After decades of critical neglect, the recovery of Loy’s literary legacy is certainly firmly—even flourishingly—underway. This paper evaluates the case that might be made for a parallel recovery of Loy’s plastic art production. Proposing a strategy for reading intermedially across her works in 2, 2 ½ and 3 dimensions, it elucidates the critical transgressions that could result from attempting a transgeneric critique of Loy’s polymorphous oeuvre.