In her role as Emerson College’s 2007 School of the Arts Visiting Artist, provocateur Karen Finley produced “Nation Building,” a thoughtful exhibition of drawings, sculpture, and mixed-media works. She also performed two monologues, The Dreams of Laura Bush and The Passion of Terry Schiavo. These may have disappointed an audience expecting variants on Finley’s infamous chocolate-covered nude performances but they revealed a calmer, more globally conscious feminist practitioner, seeking here to address issues around sexuality and power by targeting the dysfunctional Bush family, Dubya’s