We went to see Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance at the Guggenheim on 24 July 2010.
Sharon Hayes was spinning a set of vintage political speeches and spoken-word pieces in the Rotunda. If anyone knows the actual title of her piece, please tell us.
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| We’re going to the museum and I keep on pulling lisa because I said “keep on going now mom.” |  Margot pulling Lisa into the Gugg |
| The museum looked like a spaceship. It was white. You go in a circle. The floor was like this [sloping hands]. I was sitting on a circle. |  |
| There was a girl playing records. People weren’t dancing. She had more behind her. That is her table. She had a lot of space for the records. I was singing a song like “yo ee yo ee yo ee.” |  Sharon Hayes |
What we saw:
| A movie and he was chewing on his nails [Anthony Goicolea, Nail Biter, 2004]. There were all kinds of nails and he was eating them. It was little bit scary because he was all left alone without his mommy. And he didn’t have a sister. | |
| K: “was there another movie with a man sitting in a chair?”
M: “yeah, hm” |
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| there was a sword. [Nate Lowman, How to Redeem Your Towed Vehicle #1, 2009] | |
| oh yeah, four legs. She has an owee on her toe. |
 Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I, 1969 |
 Miranda Lichtenstein, Floater. 2004. Borrowed from the Guggenheim |
A mermaid and she’s swimming. You don’t see her tail because it’s in the water. |
 Marina Abromovic, Cleaning the Mirror #1, 1995 |
Another one was cleaning the skeleton. Her name is Marina. |
| You can’t cut your body. Not on your legs or on your foot or on your arm. She was putting needles in and she was cutting herself. I think she was trying to make herself bleed because maybe that was her job but I don’t think that was really her job. She wanted to make herself bleed… but it doesn’t really feel good when you bleed. |
 Gina Pane, Action: Laure, 1977 |
| I know about tummies, you have muscles and you have bones, you have everything in your body. Those are her intestines. It’s a pretend dolly, and she’s pretending she got her tummy open. |
 Zoe Leonard, Wax Anatomical Model with Pearls, 1990 |
