Karen Porter Sorensen is a performer and author. For the past seven years she has dedicated her life to researching love. Setting up a Love Research booth in public spaces, she entices passing New Yorkers by offering them a single red rose in exchange for responding to five questions about love. To date, she has interviewed hundreds of people from all walks of life. Her collective research has been gathered together into a book titled Love (lǔv) n., published by Adams Media and on sale now at (www.love-research.com) and bookstores everywhere. Karen is a member of OVO, a NY-based arts collective dedicated to creating small art. With OVO, Karen has developed and performed several theatrical presentations of her ongoing Love Research at Collective Unconscious, The Culture Project, and La Tea Theater. Her love findings have also been presented at Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, and P.S. 122.
I didn't sleep much the night before. I tossed and turned and a litany of questions kept running through my head-- everything I thought the anchor would ask. Half-asleep I practiced what I would say. The alarm rang at 5 a.m.--...
"A dreaded sunny day, so I'll meet you at the cemetery gates." -Morrissey
A long dark weekend in January. I was listening to Gospel music on the radio in celebration of Martin Luther King Day, when my friend called me for a...
First, I was laid off. Trying to claim state benefits from the NY Department of Labor could only be described as a Kafkaesque nightmare. The websites and phone systems broke down regularly as the sea of jobless New Yorkers swelled. It took me over...
Posted February 26, 2010 | 17:40:38 (EST)