Love Research

I Wanna Know What Love Is

I'm working on a book, Love Research - a memoir documenting the findings I gathered from a five year investigation of love. Using New York City as my laboratory and its inhabitants as my subjects, I'm creating a growing, kaleidoscopic record of the most mysterious and fascinating human emotion. Setting up a mobile Love Research Station around the Big Apple, I invite 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. On this site, I recount some of my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of finding out what love is.

I'm Karen Sorensen

I'm a writer and performer who has dedicated the last five years of my life to researching love. I set up my public booth on city streets and invite participants to answer questions about love in exchange for flowers. To date I have interviewed hundreds of people in New York City from all walks of life. read more about me...

"It's the 11-minute love man!"

Karen Sorensen called out to a stocky thirtysomething guy on a recent Saturday in Tompkins Square Park. Had she recognized a one-night stand? No, he was just one of the 129 New Yorkers Sorensen has interviewed about amour for Love Research, a performance-art piece she'll perform Thursday 14 through Sunday 17 at Collective Unconscious Theater. When they first met, Sorenson gave him two minutes to name the things he loved. He rambled on for an additional nine-hence the nickname. read more from this article...

	Love Research I Wanna Know What Love Is I'm working on a book, Love Research - a memoir documenting the findings I gathered from a five year investigation of love. Using New York City as my laboratory and its inhabitants as my subjects, I'm creating a growing, kaleidoscopic record of the most mysterious and fascinating human emotion. Setting up a mobile Love Research Station around the Big Apple, I invite 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. On this site, I recount some of my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of finding out what love is. I'm Karen Sorensen I'm a writer and performer who has dedicated the last five years of my life to researching love. I set up my public booth on city streets and invite participants to answer questions about love in exchange for flowers. To date I have interviewed hundreds of people in New York City from all walks of life. read more about me... "It's the 11-minute love man!" Karen Sorensen called out to a stocky thirtysomething guy on a recent Saturday in Tompkins Square Park. Had she recognized a one-night stand? No, he was just one of the 129 New Yorkers Sorensen has interviewed about amour for Love Research, a performance-art piece she'll perform Thursday 14 through Sunday 17 at Collective Unconscious Theater. When they first met, Sorenson gave him two minutes to name the things he loved. He rambled on for an additional nine-hence the nickname. read more from this article...