Stained
Stained
Performance, 2013
Stained is a performance piece that narrates the internalization of sexual violence that women and queer bodies experience as a common occurrence.
The crux of this work is its totality in time. It took less than five minutes to stain the school, and one hour to clean it – it is so easy to commit an act of sexual violence, which the victim must then internalize that act, and begin the process of trying to understand/cope with its aftermath; a painful process that takes great courage and strength. Sexual violence seems so prominent within my surrounding culture and yet, somehow it remains not talked about, invisible. My performance seeks to pick the scab of sexual violence as a way to catalyze discourse surrounding this subject, and bleed the wound dry.
Photos by: Sonja Stojkovic