Teh One Who Knocks
06-08-2015, 11:03 AM
BY Melissa Chan - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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The former Columbia University student who lugged around a mattressin a stance against college rape has released a video of herself having violent sex in her newest art performance.
Emma Sulkowicz, 22, is seen whimpering in pain and protest in the disturbing footage as an anonymous man slaps her, chokes her and rips off his condom before seemingly forcing her into having rough sex in a dorm room, according to reports.
The eight-minute clip of the consensual sex turning violent is Sulkowicz's newest performance art piece after she became nationally known as an anti-rape activist for hauling around a 50-pound twin mattress around campus for more than a year to protest the presence of her accused rapist at the Ivy League school.
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Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University, carries a mattress in protest of the university's lack of action after she reported being raped during her sophomore year.
Her newest video piece, titled "Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol" or "This is not a rape," appears to have been taken down Friday. It's not a re-enactment of her experiences that night, Sulkowicz explains on the project's website.
"The following text contains allusions to rape," she wrote. "Everything that takes place in the following video is consensual but may resemble rape. It is not a reenactment but may seem like one."
Her first act, "Carry That Weight/Mattress Performance," started after Sulkowicz claimed she was raped in her dorm room in 2012 by student Paul Nungesser, who said the sex was consensual. The school found him not responsible.
Commenters brutally blastedSulkowicz hours after the project went live late Thursday, saying the "perverse" project was in poor taste and not the right way to continue spreading her message.
"This is some disturbed self-satisfying b------t,” Brie Conway wrote on the site. “I am all for discussion and expression to help overcome and rise above what's been done to you, Ms. Sulkowicz, but this is a perverse way of doing so.”
“She was sooo traumatized that she had to reenact it with the cameras rolling. Sounds legit,” another commenter said. “This is an attention w---e whose 15 minutes were rapidly coming to a close. Desperate and pathetic.”
Other critics said the art project was nothing more than sick pornography.
“People would have respected you a lot more if you would have just become a porn star. At least then you would have been being honest with yourself and everyone else,” another commenter said. "No rape victim would do this, especially not one who claims to be as traumatized as you claim to be."
Sulkowicz, who did not return a call for comment Friday, confirmed to Artnet News the video is her latest performance piece to "change the world."
It was directed by Ted Lawson, a New York City-based artist whose digital technology works have been shown in exhibitions across the country. He did not return a Daily News email for comment.
"You might be wondering why I've made myself this vulnerable," Sulkowicz wrote on the project's website. "Look — I want to change the world, and that begins with you, seeing yourself."
http://i.imgur.com/vRMM6O7.jpg
The former Columbia University student who lugged around a mattressin a stance against college rape has released a video of herself having violent sex in her newest art performance.
Emma Sulkowicz, 22, is seen whimpering in pain and protest in the disturbing footage as an anonymous man slaps her, chokes her and rips off his condom before seemingly forcing her into having rough sex in a dorm room, according to reports.
The eight-minute clip of the consensual sex turning violent is Sulkowicz's newest performance art piece after she became nationally known as an anti-rape activist for hauling around a 50-pound twin mattress around campus for more than a year to protest the presence of her accused rapist at the Ivy League school.
http://i.imgur.com/cYgigfn.jpg
Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University, carries a mattress in protest of the university's lack of action after she reported being raped during her sophomore year.
Her newest video piece, titled "Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol" or "This is not a rape," appears to have been taken down Friday. It's not a re-enactment of her experiences that night, Sulkowicz explains on the project's website.
"The following text contains allusions to rape," she wrote. "Everything that takes place in the following video is consensual but may resemble rape. It is not a reenactment but may seem like one."
Her first act, "Carry That Weight/Mattress Performance," started after Sulkowicz claimed she was raped in her dorm room in 2012 by student Paul Nungesser, who said the sex was consensual. The school found him not responsible.
Commenters brutally blastedSulkowicz hours after the project went live late Thursday, saying the "perverse" project was in poor taste and not the right way to continue spreading her message.
"This is some disturbed self-satisfying b------t,” Brie Conway wrote on the site. “I am all for discussion and expression to help overcome and rise above what's been done to you, Ms. Sulkowicz, but this is a perverse way of doing so.”
“She was sooo traumatized that she had to reenact it with the cameras rolling. Sounds legit,” another commenter said. “This is an attention w---e whose 15 minutes were rapidly coming to a close. Desperate and pathetic.”
Other critics said the art project was nothing more than sick pornography.
“People would have respected you a lot more if you would have just become a porn star. At least then you would have been being honest with yourself and everyone else,” another commenter said. "No rape victim would do this, especially not one who claims to be as traumatized as you claim to be."
Sulkowicz, who did not return a call for comment Friday, confirmed to Artnet News the video is her latest performance piece to "change the world."
It was directed by Ted Lawson, a New York City-based artist whose digital technology works have been shown in exhibitions across the country. He did not return a Daily News email for comment.
"You might be wondering why I've made myself this vulnerable," Sulkowicz wrote on the project's website. "Look — I want to change the world, and that begins with you, seeing yourself."