Karen Finley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1710746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Finley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Finley |
| SIGNATURE | FINLEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karen Finley is a New York-based artist whose raw and personal performances, literature, installations, and visual art have long provoked controversy and debate. Her performances include I'm an Ass Man, focusing on sexual abuse and violence (1985); The Constant State of Desire (1989); A Suggestion of Madness, honoring the 10th anniversary of her father's death (1988); A Certain Level of Denial, a response to the AIDS epidemic (1992); and The American Chestnut, a parallel between the illnesses of nature... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
For Randy
In this personal essay, artist and professor Karen Finley reflects on her relationship with her colleague and mentor, Randy Martin
Make Love
Finley's newest performance piece begins in a lounge where spectators are gathered for an evening of soft music. “It was such a beautiful day for a tragedy,” intones Finley. Then: “Don't you wish for the time when the problem was who is sucking Clinton's dick!!” From there, in her inimitable way, Finley invokes post—9/11 America, fusing her personal with our collective political
The Constant State of Frustration
We Keep Our Victims Ready
The Constant State of Desire
She dreams. She dreams of falling out of a fifth-story window. But she catches her fall by holding on to the window ledge. It's January and the ledge is made of stone and icy cold. The stone, the ice, the cold cuts through her flesh, her fingers, her bone. It doesn't matter though, for she has ugly fingers. And she sees the blood gush out of her limbs, the harder she holds on to the ledge. She can hear her own death. And her husband walks below a…
Karen Finley
FINLEY: I don't have a letter, I can't really prove it, but sponsors are really scared that their funding is going to be taken away from them. The first place [in London] I was asked to stop was at the ICA [Institute of Contemporary Art] and next was AIR [Artists in Residence], a gallery. People say, Oh, we can't really put you on here, but maybe we could set something up in a loft, not announce it publicly. I could go on performing underground, …
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The Constant State of Desire
She dreams. She dreams of falling out of a fifth-story window. But she catches her fall by holding on to the window ledge. It's January and the ledge is made of stone and icy cold. The stone, the ice, the cold cuts through her flesh, her fingers, her bone. It doesn't matter though, for she has ugly fingers. And she sees the blood gush out of her limbs, the harder she holds on to the ledge. She can hear her own death. And her husband walks below a…
Karen Finley
FINLEY: I don't have a letter, I can't really prove it, but sponsors are really scared that their funding is going to be taken away from them. The first place [in London] I was asked to stop was at the ICA [Institute of Contemporary Art] and next was AIR [Artists in Residence], a gallery. People say, Oh, we can't really put you on here, but maybe we could set something up in a loft, not announce it publicly. I could go on performing underground, …
The Constant State of Frustration
We Keep Our Victims Ready
Make Love
Finley's newest performance piece begins in a lounge where spectators are gathered for an evening of soft music. “It was such a beautiful day for a tragedy,” intones Finley. Then: “Don't you wish for the time when the problem was who is sucking Clinton's dick!!” From there, in her inimitable way, Finley invokes post—9/11 America, fusing her personal with our collective political
For Randy
In this personal essay, artist and professor Karen Finley reflects on her relationship with her colleague and mentor, Randy Martin
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