Karen Finley: Dispatches from Villa Feuerlöscher

Tuesday, 11/10: Dispatches from Villa Feuerlöscher Visual and performance artist KAREN FINLEY discusses her piece “Open Hearts,” a Holocaust memorial installed in Villa Feuerlöscher in Prenning, Austria—a site of trauma and pain for several hundred children during WWII—as part of a summer 2009 exhibition on the villa, memory and resistance. Finley will be joined by curator HANNES PRIESCH and GABRIEL HIRNTHALER, Villa Feuerlöscher’s current owner. Response by MABEL O. WILSON, Columbia GSAPP Free and open to the public RSVP: gdb2106[@]columbia[dot]edu Studio-X 180 Varick Street, STE 1610 Between King and Charleton Streets 212 989 2398 [Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]