Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz, more commonly known as “Mattress Girl,” has released a sex tape recreating her alleged rape.
The video, titled Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol, (French for, “This Is Not a Rape”), was filmed several months ago, and just released on Thursday by the site artnet News.
Sulkowicz prefaces the video with a “trigger warning,” that the video is consensual, “but may resemble rape.”
In the introduction, she also tells viewers not to watch the video for the wrong reasons, saying, “Please, don’t participate in my rape.”
The 8-minute pornographic video shows Sulkowicz and an unknown man having consensual sex in a dorm room. During sex, the man turns violent and slaps her and refuses to stop when she tells him to.
The video is dated August 27, 2012, the day that Sulkowicz claims she was raped by fellow Columbia student Jean-Paul Nungesser.
In an interview with artnet News, Sulkowicz calls the sex tap a “performance art piece” and says she will be following up with another piece in a week or so.
Sulkowicz initially drew national media attention for carrying her mattress around campus for a year in protest of her school’s sexual assault policies. She created a video entitled “Carry That Weight,” for her senior thesis, and even carried her mattress across the stage at her graduation ceremony several weeks ago.
Nungesser, the accused rapist, has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against Columbia University for allowing Sulkowicz to speak out against him after he had been cleared of the charges.
