Karen Finley: Nov 25

Karen Finley
RAPID RESPONSE: I NEED MY SPACE
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Visual and performance artist Karen Finley will lead this group meeting, featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space--physical, social, cultural and psychological--that it exposed. How do our national political relationships inform or dialogue with the workplace, family, community and friends? How do the race, gender, class and identity issues raised in the campaign continue to be discussed? Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space.

Audience participation in the meeting is encouraged. I NEED MY SPACE will last approximately one hour, with the hope of providing a therapeutic and supportive group environment for those needing space in their own lives.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Refreshments provided by BAREFOOT WINES

RAPID RESPONSE is held on the last Tuesday of each month, it is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have taken place over the last thirty days. Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/calendar.html