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''Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)'' (2014–2015) was a work of endurance performance art by Emma Sulkowicz, conducted as her senior thesis during the final year of her visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.〔For "endurance performance art," Emma Sulkowicz (September 2, 2014). ("Emma Sulkowicz: "Carry That Weight" ), ''Columbia Daily Spectator'', 2:22 mins.〕 Begun in September 2014, the piece involved her carrying a 50-lb mattress – of the kind Columbia uses in its dorms – wherever she went on campus. She said the piece would end when a student she alleges raped her in her dorm room in 2012 was expelled from or otherwise left the university. Sulkowicz carried the mattress until May 2015 when both students graduated. Several women helped her carry it to the graduation ceremony.〔 The student Sulkowicz accused was found "not responsible" in 2013 by a university inquiry into the allegations. He called Sulkowicz's version of events "untrue and unfounded" and ''Mattress Performance'' an act of bullying.〔 Sulkowicz filed a police complaint in May 2014; the district attorney's office did not pursue criminal charges, citing lack of reasonable suspicion. In April 2015 the student Sulkowicz accused filed a lawsuit against the university, its trustees, university president Lee Bollinger, and art professor Jon Kessler, Sulkowicz's thesis supervisor, alleging that they exposed him to gender-based harassment by allowing ''Mattress Performance'' to take place on campus for course credit.〔 Art critic Jerry Saltz called ''Mattress Performance'' "pure radical vulnerability" and one of the best art shows of 2014.〔 Journalist Emily Bazelon described the work and events surrounding it as "an increasingly bitter fight over truth and narrative," a triumph for the survivor movement and a nightmare for the student Sulkowicz accused. Caught between defending Sulkowicz's freedom of expression and the accused's right to due process, the university was criticized by both parties and their parents for its handling of the issue.〔 ==Background== Emma Sulkowicz (born 1992)〔("Carry That Weight" ), Emma Sulkowicz interviewed by Roberta Smith, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, December 2014 (hereafter Smith 2014), c. 48:50 mins.〕 is the daughter of Sandra Leong and Kerry Sulkowicz, psychiatrists from Manhattan. She attended Dalton School on the Upper East Side, and in 2011 began her visual arts degree at Columbia University.〔 Sulkowicz alleges that she was anally raped in her dorm room by another student, on the first day of her second year in August 2012, during what began as a consensual sexual encounter.〔 The student Sulkowicz accused strongly denies the allegation, insisting that the encounter was entirely consensual. In April 2013, 8 months after the encounter, Sulkowicz filed a complaint with the university.〔 Sulkowicz says she filed her complaint after she encountered two other women who said they had been victimized by the same individual. Shortly after Sulkowicz filed her complaint, the two other students with whom she was acquainted also filed complaints with the university against the same student.〔Richard Pérez-Peña, Kath Taylor (May 3, 2014). ("Fight Against Sexual Assaults Holds Colleges to Account" ), ''The New York Times''.〕〔Cathy Young (May 20, 2015). ("As Another Accusation Bites the Dust, Columbia Rape Saga Takes New Turn" ), reason.com.〕〔Cathy Young (February 3, 2015). ("Columbia Student: I Didn't Rape Her" ), ''The Daily Beast''.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=I Am Not a 'Pretty Little Liar' )〕 Columbia ultimately cleared him of responsibility in all three cases.〔 The case attracted wider attention when the three female students who filed complaints gave interviews to the ''New York Post'', which broke the story on December 11, 2013, without naming those involved.〔For interview with Sulkowicz that mentions the ''New York Post'', Christoph Cadenbach (May 2015), ("Nachtschatten" ), ''Suddeutche Zeitung Magazin'', p. 2; for the ''Post'' story, Tara Palmeri (December 11, 2013), ("Columbia drops ball on jock 'rapist' probe: students" ), ''New York Post''.〕 In April 2014 Sulkowicz appeared with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at a press conference about campus sexual assault.〔("Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Seeks Funds To Fight College Campus Sex Assaults" ), CBS New York, April 7, 2014.〕 On April 24, 2014, 23 students filed a federal complaint against Columbia and Barnard College, alleging violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law upholding gender equality in federally funded institutions.〔Emma Bogler (April 24, 2014). ("Students file federal complaint against Columbia, alleging Title IX, Title II, Clery Act violations" ), ''Columbia Spectator''.〕 Among other issues, the complaint alleged that the institutions discourage students from reporting sexual assault, that alleged perpetrators are not removed from campus, and that sanctions are too lenient.〔 The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation in January 2015. On May 14, 2014, Sulcowicz filed a complaint with the NYPD. The district attorney's office interviewed Sulkowicz and the student she accused in August, but did not pursue charges, citing lack of reasonable suspicion.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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