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6.5.15 | Robby Soave
Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student (now graduate) who carried her mattress everywhere as both a protest against her alleged rapist and as an art project for course credit, recently appeared in a pornographic art film titled “Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol,” which means “This is not a rape.”
The 8 minute video, which is not suitable for work, comes with a disclaimer that the content could trigger survivors of sexual assault. The disclaimer also makes clear that the sex in the video is “absolutely consensual,” but was staged to resemble a rape.
The scene features Sulkowicz having sex with an unidentified man in what appears to be a college dorm room. The man’s face is blurred, protecting his identity, but everything else is shown. Their sex eventually becomes abusive—the man hits Sulkowicz twice and chokes her; she tells him to stop, but he doesn’t listen. Again, they are merely acting out a scene, and he does not actually rape her, though they do at least appear to have real sex.
Artnetnews.com confirmed that the woman in the video is indeed Sulkowicz:
"I may not be able to answer many of your questions," Sulkowicz wrote to us when we reached out to her over Facebook and asked her about the video directed by Lawson. Sulkowicz also agreed to be interviewed. When asked if she wanted people to view the video as a follow-up to the mattress performance, Sulkowicz wrote back, "Separate. It has a diff title."
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