KAREN FINLEY Live 2004 ( Shut up and love me, Make love making of)

If you like KAREN FINLEY, support the artist and BUY THE DVD Parental Advisory required. 2004 PERFECT DAY FILM, no Copyright Infringement intended Karen Finley s performances are all about exposure, and I don t mean anything so prosaic as nudity. Her monologues unzip the viscera, getting at emotions so deep and raw that most people have no words for them except the fourletter variety. The unspeakable has always been her subject, come hell or Jesse Helms, and the two postmillennial works presented here approach new depths to reach new heights. After suffering through a decade as America s most controversial performance artist, Finley suddenly reclaimed the psychotic joie de vivre of her early nightclub work, married it to uncommonly challenging material, and led audiences to moments of unexpected catharsis. Shut Up and Love Me deconstructs desire into a set of unlovely impulses, climaxing (so to speak) with Finley rolling naked in her golden pond of honey. This is a