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- Title
Karen Finley.
- Authors
Schechner, Richard
- Abstract
This section presents an interview with performance artist Karen Finley. According to Finley, bookers are canceling The Constant State of Desire and her other pieces because people are scared of her information. They really don't know what she's going to do, they don't like her dealing with sexual issues or political issues. At Scream, a club in Los Angeles, California, they canceled her a week before she was to go on. Lydia Lunch performed there, and they were scared of what she was going to do. They told her the vice squad threatened to take their license if they put on someone like her. Finley says that she stirs people to be responsible for what's going on in their own personal lives, in their one-to-one relationships, interweaving this into the whole society's corruption.
- Subjects
FINLEY, Karen, 1956-; PERFORMANCE artists; PERFORMANCE art; WOMEN performance artists
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1988, Vol 32, Issue 1, p152
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.2307/1145876