Sharon Hayes, acclaimed Philadelphia-based artist, will screen her 2024 two-channel video, Ricerche: four, an interview with three groups of LGBTQIA elders, from Philadelphia, PA, Dowelltown, TN, and Los Angeles, CA, the last in a 4-part series in which Hayes interviews different groups across the US about sex, sexuality, gender, love and living. This work, featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, showcases a joyful, illuminating and deeply moving conversation in which participants reflect on their relationships to community, family, activism, sex and sexuality as well as to changing political landscapes. While not all participants identify as elders, they each speak from deep and long experiences that shape their understanding of social, political and economic promises and possibilities as well as of challenges for them and their communities. These conversations make an inspired proposition for the importance of intergenerational collaboration, dialogue, and care.
The eighty-minute video will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the artist, six of the project participants, and LGBTQ+ Swarthmore students.
Panel participants include: Andrea Lamour-Harrington (Chester, PA), Gary Hines (Philadelphia, PA), Maryanne Poposky (Nashville, TN), SPREE (Short Mountain, TN), Verónica Flores (Los Angeles, CA), Bamby Salcedo (Los Angeles, CA).
Presented by the Aydelotte Foundation in conjunction with Just Art: Feminist Anti-Racist Practice.
Co-sponsors: Cooper Serendipity Fund, Sager Fund, Clark Fund for Gender Discourse, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Gender and Sexuality Center, and Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility.
