The wellspring of that pain is what you express on stage. How were you able to channel it? My work is about the resilience of speaking up and out of expressing the vulnerability, the strength and the courage in the resistance which occurs in the actual act of creativity. The rearrangement, poetically, is an attempt by the re imagining of events, or the interpreting the witnessing, provides a portal to an imagine space.
Karen Finley reflects on her legendary performance pieces, censorship and decades of groundbreaking work—and the sheer joy in creating art.