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Karen FinleyBirth Place:Nationality:Known For:Alma Mater:Employer:Occupation:Performance artist, musician, poetWebsite:Karen Finley (born 1956) is an American ist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity. Finley incorporates depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement in her work Karen Finley is currently a professor at the at.Karen Finley has written various books that focus on controversial topics. She wrote Shock Treatment, Enough Is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally, the satire Living It Up: Humorous Adventures in Hyperdomesticity, Pooh Unplugged (detailing the eating and psychological disorders of and his friends), and A Different Kind of Intimacy - a latter collection of her works. Her poem 'The Black Sheep' is among her best-known works; it was displayed as public art in New York City for one month.

Finley's poetry is included in. BiographyFinley was born in and raised in. She is a relative of the American humorist and writer. Her father was of and descent and her mother was of, and ancestry.While Karen Finley was a student at the, she became immersed in the 's punk music scene, witnessing the emergence of the bands and the.

In 1977, Finley performed in underground art galleries and music clubs such as and, which hosted poetry readings, punk concerts, and alternative performance art acts. Finley's performance Deathcakes and Autism included a dancer, called 'Laurie', from the. The work's narrative juxtaposes the shattering psychological impact of Finley's father's recent suicide with a study of the female nude. Having received an from the San Francisco Art Institute, Finley procured her first NEA grant and moved to New York City. She quickly became part of the city's art scene, collaborating with artists such as ( — whom she married/divorced — and Martin von Haselberg) and.Finley's early recordings featured her ranting provocative monologues over beats (and she would often perform her songs late night at, where she worked). These recordings include the singles 'Tales of Taboo' from 1986 and 'Lick It' from 1988 (both produced by collaborator ) plus the 1988 album The Truth Is Hard to Swallow. She collaborated with on a remix of O'Connor's song 'Jump in the River,' and was prominently sampled by on the classic dance floor cut-up, ' (her vocal - sampled from 'Tales of Taboo' - exclaimed, 'Drop that!'

She was notably one of the, four performance artists whose grants from the were vetoed in 1990 by after the process was condemned by Senator under 'decency' issues. In 1991, she created the Memento Mori installation in, as part of the Burning the Flag? Festival examining American live art and censorship. Finley also played ' character's doctor in the movie at the invitation of Director.In 1994, her album The Truth Is Hard to Swallow was re-released on CD, with a slightly different track listing, as Fear of Living. In conjunction with the re-release, both 'Tales of Taboo' and 'Lick It' appeared on 12-inch again with new remixes by Super DJ Dmitry, and other DJs of note. Samples of vocal from 'Tales of Taboo' were used by French DJs in a dance song ', which was a minor hit in France.

Finley released a double-disc set on the label, A Certain Level of Denial, a studio version of the performance piece. Following that piece came The Return of the Chocolate-smeared Woman, her performance rebuttal to Helms and the NEA controversy. Congress imposed restrictions on grants for indecent art. NEA head John Frohnmayer, took the side of the targeted artists, which included Finley.

The case, (1998), argued in front of the, was decided against Finley and the other artists.Finley has expressed delight at the fact that she appeared in (in July 1999) and received a magazine Woman of the Year award within months of each other. She was also featured in during this period, though she felt that the magazine misrepresented her by 'eroticizing' works (such as one that addressed rape) based on her nudity alone; in other words, that they couldn't absorb any information beyond her naked body. After the attacks of, Finley found it difficult to appear as herself on stage. It was almost as if 'Karen Finley' got in the way of the material, and Finley had already found herself at the center of a firestorm that made her persona a controversial national reference to nudity in art, in a public conversation that extended from to to to to to (she was famously edited out of a Miller show at mid-show) to to to, the Broadway musical, where the character of Maureen is often described as an homage to Finley. In her performances, Finley's voice now became the voice of other women that she embodied;, Silda Spitzer, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Finley also wrote a play, George and Martha, depicting an affair between and; the play has its roots in other versions of George and Martha, notably that of.The Karen Finley Live DVD (2004) compiled performances of Shut Up and Love Me and Make Love.

Finley revived a slightly updated version of 'Make Love' at in New York to commemorate the seventh anniversary of 9/11; she marked the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with a performance of 'Make Love' at the in. In 2009, Finley created a memorial at the concentration camp in, to commemorate the murder by lethal injection to the heart of 420 Jewish children by the in February 1945. The installation, Open Heart, was created with Austrian school children and Holocaust survivors. In 2011, she lectured at the in New York about music and art, reflecting on her inclusion in the MoMA exhibition Music 3.0 of her composition 'Tales of Taboo'. She published a compendium of her work from 2001–2010 through at. In 2012, Finley was a Fellow at at the where she introduced a new work, Broken Negative Catch 23, a deeply personal reflection of her performance We Keep Our Victims Ready that had ignited the NEA controversy 23 year before. Broken Negative Catch 23 was performed at the at in September 2012, as part of a reunion of the NEA Four; Finley's performance and re-performance included NEA Four colleague and artist.In 2013, the in New York City presented Karen Finley's Sext Me If You Can, a highly personal performance that took place in the public lobby of the museum.

The exhibit, which blurred the lines between art, commerce, popular culture, private behavior, taboos and sexuality, allowed patrons to purchase a drawing that Finley created of a photographic image that they 'sexted' to Finley from a private room in the museum. The resulting paintings were on display in the Museum's windows, and then went home as the property of the patron. In the summer of 2014, Finley led group meetings on Friday evenings at the at in New York City of Artists Anonymous, designed after 12-step self-help programs. Finley's 13-step program encourages personal exploration from artists whose 'lives have become unmanageable because of art'.Finley developed a new performance based on her early writing about from the 1980s and 90s.

In 2013, Finley responded to a request to participate in a New York gallery exhibition looking back at the past 25 years of the AIDS epidemic, NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS, to which Finley responded by installing an abbreviated homage to her early installation, Written in Sand, originally presented at in. This led to Finley reading some of her early AIDS writing at Participant Gallery in the summer of 2013 at a tribute to the late artist. By fall 2013, the performance Written in Sand was launched from these beginnings.

In the work Finley recited twelve poems about AIDS from her own books Shock Treatment, A Different Kind of Intimacy and elsewhere. Written in Sand was performed at, at, at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and, in October 2014, over a month-long run at Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York City in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Paul Nebenzahl. 'Written In Sand' was performed again as the headline performance of the Spill Festival at London' Barbican Center in October 2015; Finley also installed Ribbon Gate at Spill 2015 as a participatory AIDS memorial for Londoners. In 2016, Finley introduced 'Unicorn, Gratitude, Mystery' at New York City's on. In this performance, she satirizes both.

In 2017, Finley appeared as the lead actor in director 's film, 'Far East Of Eden' which explores institutional and state racism in 1910's through the lens of racist Senator. The film is narrated. InfluencesFinley's work was influenced by her professors at the, and and pioneer performance artist.

She was also influenced by jazz artists such as and the s of San Francisco such as. In 2011, she was especially honored to read from her ten-year retrospective, The Reality Shows at there, the publisher of her first book Shock Treatment. In 2015 City Lights Books released a commemorative 25th Anniversary edition of 'Shock Treatment' with an extended introduction. Books. 1990: Shock Treatment.

1993: Enough Is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally. 1996: Living it Up: Humorous Adventures in Hyperdomesticity. 1999: Pooh Unplugged. 2000: A Different Kind of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley.

2006: George and Martha. 2011: The Reality Shows. 2015, City Lights: Shock Treatment: Expanded 25th Anniversary EditionDiscography Albums. 1987: The Truth Is Hard to Swallow. 1994: Fear of Living.

1994: A Certain Level of DenialSingles. 1986: 'Tales of Taboo'. 1988: 'Lick It!'

. 1988: 'Jump in the River' (with )Filmography YearTitleRoleNotes1993The GeniusKitty Church1993Dr. Gillman1994Fresh KillSee also.

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