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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.

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Jun 12

Jun 12 Tools for torture: meet the dominatrix using tattoo and body modification experts as instruments for pain

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(Published in VICE 12/06/2019) Feris Tergo sessions are designed to explore the murky and macabre space between what unites tattoo, body modification and BDSM.

(NSFW / TW) “Today, I will suffer for your art”: meet the nihilist going beyond the intersection of kink and body modification to produce traumatic works of art

Mar 19

Mar 19 (NSFW / TW) “Today, I will suffer for your art”: meet the nihilist going beyond the intersection of kink and body modification to produce traumatic works of art

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(abridged version published in VICE, 19/03/18) JILF, a self-described nihilist and practising dominatrix, orchestrates painful and subversive acts with her partners with the aim of eliciting trauma and embracing disgust.