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Karen Finley: candied yams up the ass?

By maynard in maynard's Diary
Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 09:44:15 PM EST
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Hey, go figure. That performance artist weirdo Karen Finley never really did stick candied yams up her ass on stage. Turns out some Villiage Voice writer claimed it without ever having seen her performance.

Sheesh. Too bad.

When she performed Yams up my Granny's Ass in 1986, a cover story, "Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts" appeared on the cover of the Village Voice, and her life changed overnight. The following week, a scornful and sarcastic response piece from Pete Hamill appeared in the same newspaper. "Hamill apparently never went to see the performance that he devoted so many words to excoriating," she writes, "because he imagined that I actually took an uncooked yam and sodomized myself with it on stage."
A DIFFERENT KIND OF INTIMACY provides Finley's long-awaited response to Hamill:
I thought about writing a letter to the Voice, but every time I sat down to write, ÔI never put a yam in my butt,' I'd think-but what if I had? SO WHAT? I felt that defending, explaining, clarifying, would somehow be giving in to them. In retrospect, I wish I had had a sense of humor about it, that I had used humor to puncture HamillÕs posturing. But I had so much invested in being taken seriously. I felt that women were always laughed at or sexualized when somebody wanted to shut them up, and I didnÕt want to risk that happening to me. I did react to the attacks in one way-they pissed me off so much that I became even more determined to continue doing outrageous work using my body.

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Karen Finley: candied yams up the ass? | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Wow. (3.00 / 2) (#1)
by gai goa tse on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:18:07 PM EST

She and the Goatse guy would be perfect for each other.

I live in a world of cold steel! And dungeons! And mighty foes!

her shtick is pretty fucked up by maynard, 03/21/2006 10:18:53 PM EST (none / 0)

Heh. (3.00 / 3) (#3)
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:29:53 PM EST

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HUMAN UNIT . NOMORENICKSLEFT by ROBOT CHE GUEVARA, 03/21/2006 10:39:42 PM EST (2.33 / 3)

speakable unhuman sexual acts by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 02:52:53 AM EST (none / 0)
speakable human unsexual acts by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 02:53:12 AM EST (none / 0)
speakable human sexual unacts by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 02:53:37 AM EST (none / 0)

heh. i think i'm really clever. heh. by gai goa tse, 03/21/2006 11:00:29 PM EST (3.00 / 2)

You are ignorant of this man's life goals. by debacle, 03/21/2006 11:55:00 PM EST (none / 0)

good lord, man by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 02:51:59 AM EST (none / 0)

Well, what would you suggest? by NoMoreNicksLeft, 03/22/2006 03:50:15 AM EST (none / 0)

huh by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 05:19:25 AM EST (none / 0)

The prefix is necessary. by NoMoreNicksLeft, 03/22/2006 05:36:31 AM EST (none / 0)

exactly what i meant by tkatchevzz, 03/22/2006 09:36:23 AM EST (none / 0)

Well... by NoMoreNicksLeft, 03/23/2006 06:53:03 PM EST (none / 0)

Blah. by NoMoreNicksLeft, 03/22/2006 05:38:57 AM EST (none / 0)

Did Ozzy eat them afterwards? $ (none / 0) (#5)
by Psychology Sucks on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:44:04 PM EST

speaking of 80's performance art (none / 1) (#6)
by minerboy on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:52:21 PM EST

I know one of the women in dancenoise from school. Had this conversation at a school reunion about how most people don't really understand what she did - I'm not sure she really understood either. I think it kinda pissed her off that someone blew her cover, and knew some of the wierd nude antics she performed. I didn't tell anyone though

Two words: (none / 0) (#18)
by Ignore Amos on Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 11:34:40 AM EST

Myranda Didovic.

And that explains why airplanes carry cargo on small boats floating in their cargo aquarium. - jmzero

OK. I didn't need to know about that by maynard, 03/22/2006 12:12:16 PM EST (none / 1)

Karen Finley: candied yams up the ass? | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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