December 2, 2020, 3pm
Karen Finley, Speaking Up & Out
Karen Finley, Speaking Up & Out
Online
Karen Finley, photo by Dona Ann McAdams; Rachel Mason photo by Michael Poehlman
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Join renowned performance artist Karen Finley for a reading and conversation with Rachel Mason, director of the documentary Circus of Books. Finley will give a short dramatic reading from her book Grabbing Pussy and will discuss her role of the artist as historical recorder and how her practice is part of a tradition of the artist representing society, policy and the marginalized. Finley will discuss the context of her recent visual work of overlaying text as a space of resistance—a response to the constant bombardment of words as lies, cruelties and misinformation—and how poetics are able to subvert and escape with imagination and purpose.
Join renowned performance artist Karen Finley for a reading and conversation with Rachel Mason, director of the documentary Circus of Books. Finley will give a short dramatic reading from her book Grabbing Pussy and will discuss her role of the artist as historical recorder and how her practice is part of a tradition of the artist representing society, policy and the marginalized. Finley will discuss the context of her recent visual work of overlaying text as a space of resistance—a response to the constant bombardment of words as lies, cruelties and misinformation—and how poetics are able to subvert and escape with imagination and purpose.