

Art is not inherently entertaining. Art can be many things. It can be something meant to invoke certain feelings, including negative ones, and it can be a commentary on something the artist finds important. Protest art falls in that category. The performance, carrying around the mattress, makes a concept that is abstracted for many people into something tangible and easy to empathize with. I’d be pretty outraged if a school forced one of its attendees to carry around that physical weight arbitrarily. I should be outraged that they’re making her carry the emotional weight of attending the school alongside her rapist.






The reasoning stays hidden? That’s absolutely wild to me. How do you… Introspect? I’m genuinely curious.