Love Research
Love Research
"Remarkable.revealing"
-- Tampa Tribune
An ongoing public art project by Karen Sorensen
Using New York City as her laboratory and its inhabitants as her subjects, Karen Sorensen (the woman Time Out New York dubbed the "Love Research Lady") creates a growing, kaleidoscopic record of the most mysterious and fascinating human emotion. Setting up a mobile "Love Research Station" around the Big Apple, Sorensen invites total strangers to answer intimate questions about love in exchange for a flower. The candid, insightful and surprising answers are recorded on digital audiotape, archived and presented in a wide array of venues, including art galleries and theaters, and in a forthcoming book.
Love Research productions presented by OVO include:
Love Research: A Theatrical Experiment
Conducted and Performed by Karen Sorensen
Directed by Ian Rosenberg
Collective Unconscious, New York City
November 2002
In this performance– a synthesis of her recordings, monologues and a nightly on-stage interview– Sorensen revealed the results of her first year of research.
Love Research: Phase II
Conducted and Performed by Karen Sorensen
Directed by Ian Rosenberg
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City
November 2003
In her second annual Love Research presentation, Sorensen conducted a series of live on-stage Love Research interviews with brave audience volunteers.
