And I realize that this may be a sidestep, coming to meet the question with visual artists.
I think there are moments when Karen Finley got pretty close to resisting the gaze, actually -- mostly, when she was having diarrhea onstage. Because it's an abject performance. Almost purely so.
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Date: 2006-08-18 06:15 pm (UTC)I think there are moments when Karen Finley got pretty close to resisting the gaze, actually -- mostly, when she was having diarrhea onstage. Because it's an abject performance. Almost purely so.