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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 Ritual

(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.

Apr 25

Apr 25 Introducing the Brutal Black Project: “No Compassion. No Scruples. No Empathy.” This is where mandalas come to die

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(VICE online 25/04/17) This is one of the most brutal experiences one can imagine in the field of tattooing, where wills are either broken or solidified. This is the Brutal Black Project, and they’ll “ruin your life”.

Mar 1

Mar 1 Flesh Eating Body Modifiers

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(Things & Ink, issue 9. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) ‘I guess I took it a bit lightly and didn’t explain myself, it was just like “RAAAAAHHH; I’m eating my own head!”

Dec 9

Dec 9 Initiation: An Ancient Ritual in a Modern World—Samoan Tatau.

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(Things & Ink, issue 8. Republished in INKED, issue 27) ‘The first hit, your mind is full of so many thoughts; mostly you’re thinking, “Shit, what have I done; what am I doing; I can’t do this”.