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...many cannot handle the honesty of Finley??s rage; conservatives have frequently tried to prevent her from receiving federal funding. Last Thursday, she gave Harvard students a chance to judge her for themselves when she came to the Carpenter Center and delivered a lecture entitled “The Body as Rorshach Test.” Clad all in black with silky auburn hair, and a svelte yet womanly figure, Finley looked more like a striking movie star than a queen of grotesquery...
Such highly charged performances have resulted in several arduous legal battles. Much of Finley??s work in the 1980s did not meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ congressionally set standards for decency. Finley calls this kind of legislation a form of McCarthyism, and believes herself to be a defender of the First Amendment. In 1998, her case reached the Supreme Court, which decided against her. Although Finley??s work is highly respected in Europe, she refuses to seek funding abroad; leaving the country would be a form of resignation...
...Much of Finley??s lecture was spent going over the art that she has produced in the last two decades. Many of Finley??s friends died of AIDS in the ’80s, and she believes that the taboo associated with homosexuality denied them proper funerals. And so she decided to initiate her own funerary pageants. “Written in Sand” is about the process of mourning. Viewers enter a candle-lit room and write the names of loved ones who have died of AIDS in sand on the ground...
...Finley??s early work depicted abuse. Now, a more mature woman, she attempts to convey the power of female sensuality and sexuality. “I felt that women were always laughed at or sexualized when somebody wanted to shut them up, and I didn’t want to risk that happening to me,” she says...
...memories. Ahh yes. They come pouring forth from long unexplored recesses of my mind. Strange. The memories of the tutorials, the seminars, the lectures and the classes—the very reason for attending Fair Harvard—are shrouded, misty. Sure. I recall John Finley??s final Hum 3 lecture. I remember being awed by Professors James Q. Wilson and Otto Eckstein as well as being astounded by Stanley Hoffman and Michael Waltzer. But I haven’t the foggiest memory of what any of them actually said...