Mattress Performance was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.
Emma Sulkowicz (center right) with Mattress Performance at graduation, May 19, 2015
Sulkowicz, December 2014
Mattress Performance rules of engagement, Columbia University, 2014
"Carry that Weight Together", Columbia University, September 10, 2014
Camille Paglia
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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
…Some commentators questioned Sulkowicz's account of the assault and argued that the performance was unfair to Nungesser. Social critic Camille Paglia described Mattress Performance as "a parody of the worst aspects of that kind of grievance-oriented feminism", adding that a feminist work "should…
Paglia in 2017