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The 4th wall is a theatre term for the invisible wall between performers and the audience. When performers speak directly to the audience it’s considered breaking the 4th wall. As the sociologist Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy suggests, we are constantly performing our identities. The interviews on this page were an attempt to enquire beyond the performativity of self.

All tagged Feminism

Mar 17

Mar 17 Alice in Tattooland

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Alice Snape, the editor of Things&Ink, talks about her journey as an independent publisher of a female-friendly tattoo culture publication.

Mar 4

Mar 4 A body-modifying ‘hybrid human’ on their life and tattoo power

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(Abridged version first published in DAZED & CONFUSED magazine, 03/03/17) Touka Voodoo has actively used body art and modification to transcend the notion of binaries.

Sep 22

Sep 22 Trash Drag Aesthetic

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(Things & Ink, issue 11) "I think it’s a real big kick and liberation once you’ve put on a face and the costume and you go out in public. You become a character, a different person, and so people respond to you differently.”