Showing videos filed under: scotland

• Karen Finley, My Perestroika, and Lee Camp

  April 1, 2011

  "I think that we're in a society where art still is threatening, but at some point I think that we can look at when art is still being questioned or being sanctioned or being funded, then we need to look at that work that is being deliberated over because it's speaking to something that is happening in culture," says performance artist Karen Finley, whose lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts made her into a national icon against her will after her grant was denied on the basis of the subject matter of her art. In her new book, The Reality Shows, and in her performances, Finley takes on different personae to explore traumas, and teaches people to get in touch with their own experiences.

  • 911
  • art
  • body
  • celebrity
  • college
  • communism
  • conservatism
  • culture
  • feminism
  • funding
  • gorbechev
  • GOT DOCS?
  • humor
  • karen finley
  • Lee Camp
  • liza minelli
  • my perestroika
  • nea
  • nea 4
  • occupation
  • performance
  • politics
  • protests
  • robin hessman
  • Russia
  • scotland
  • soviet union
  • students
  • ussr
  • women

• Lee Camp: The Answer to Police Brutality?

  April 1, 2011

  Comedian Lee Camp visited Scotland and was shocked by what he saw: college students protesting? What's that all about? But he's realized something more important as well--maybe the key to ending police brutality of protesters is putting them in new outfits. It seems to work all right for the Scots...

  • college
  • humor
  • Lee Camp
  • occupation
  • protests
  • scotland
  • students