A seminal voice in American political art, Sharon Hayes reinterprets the Ancient Greek Echo myth New York-based multimedia artist Sharon Hayes (born 1970) explores how speech echoed or repeated can have the force of an action, a force that rivals the original speech act, and offers a feminist reading of Echo, who was punished for her powers of conversation with the inability to speak anything but other\'s words.
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A seminal voice in American political art, Sharon Hayes reinterprets the Ancient Greek Echo myth New York-based multimedia artist Sharon Hayes (born 1970) explores how speech echoed or repeated can have the force of an action, a force that rivals the original speech act, and offers a feminist reading of Echo, who was punished for her powers of conversation with the inability to speak anything but other\'s words
