Word: finleyism
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...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...
...more than a pretty face. Finley combines humility and arrogance in a way that befits someone as prominent as she. Her intimate bantering with the audience was almost too much, and one found oneself fearing that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...
...many of her performances, Finley takes on the grandiose chauvinsim of a male-dominated art world. Her life-long commitment to feminism stems from her disgust at the way women have been shackled by their domestic role. As objects of desire, and thus objects of inspiration for male artists, women have only had a passive role in the history of western...
Finely claims to use this disadvantage to her advantage. “I didn’t have the privilege as a woman to use abstraction,” she says. Finley decided to outsmart men at their own game by elaborating on their obsession with the female body. In her performances her body becomes a work of art. “I wanted to be the canvas. I am the experience. You can’t buy me.” Finley uses her body as a weapon against sexism, racism and other forms of oppression. Her work reflects...
...became derisively known as “the chocolate smeared woman” after rubbing chocolate all over her body in “We Keep Our Victims Ready.” Finley intends this act to be a symbolic gesture of solidarity towards a young black woman whose dead body was found covered in excrement. “I wanted to give her a voice,” she says. “All of us have that moment where putting shit on us is a better choice.” After covering herself in chocolate, Finley wrapped herself...